Configuration Library - Nested structs/ArrayLists

[Alexandros__]

Hello everyone,

I am using the Configuration Application block to write an XML
configuration file for my application. Most of it is working fine but I
have a problem serialising some nested structs that have arraylist
fields. What I want to do is to have a ShoppingBasket that will hold
any number of Itemstructs and an AllShoppingBask ets that will hold all
the ShoppingBaskets . The resulting XML I am after should look like
this.

<AllShoppingBas kets>
<ShoppingBasket >
<Item>
<ItemType>ItemT ype</ItemType>
<ItemCaption>It emCaption</ItemCaption>
</Item>
</ShoppingBasket >
</AllShoppingBask ets >

To do this I created
- an Item struct:
public struct Item
{
public Item(string itemType, string itemCaption)...
}

- a ShoppingBasket struct:
public struct ShoppingBasket
{
public ShoppingBasket (ArrayList items)...
}
the items Arraylist will hold all the items of the basket.

- and an AllShopingBaske t struct.
public struct Stations
{
public Stations (ArrayList allBaskets)...
}
the allBaskets Arraylist will hold all the ShoppingBaskets where every
basket will hold Items.

to serialise the data I am using :
ConfigurationMa nager.WriteConf iguration("shop pingbasketsetti ngs",
configData);
So in the ConfigData Class I have an AllShopingBaske ts property to be
serialized this way I would get

<AllShoppingBas kets>
<AllBaskets>
<anyType xsi:type="Shopp ingBasket">
<Items>
<anyType xsi:type="Item" >
<ItemType>ItemT ype</ItemType>
<ItemCaption>It emCaption</ItemCaption>
</anyType>
</Items>
</anyType>
</AllBaskets>
</AllShoppingBask ets>

But if I have to have an Item and a ShoppingBasket as properties in the
ConfigData class or else I get an XML exception. If I do have those two
I get the above XML but also XML representations of Items and
ShopingBaskets which I don't want. If I use [XMLIgnore] on them it
breaks again.

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong or suggestion on doing this in a
different way?

Cheers