How to remove xmlns:xsd at root tag via XmlSerialization

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Hello,

I use Xml serialization to serialize an object into an xml file.

My root tag is defined as following:

[System.CodeDom. Compiler.Genera tedCodeAttribut e("xsd",
"2.0.50727. 42")]
[System.Componen tModel.Designer CategoryAttribu te("code")]
[SerializableAtt ribute()]
[XmlType("Style" )]
public class RPStyle
{
//...
}

That will produce following xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Style xmlns:xsd="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>

You see, that there is an attribute xmlns:xsd. How can I get rid of
that xmlns attribute?

Thank you,
Norbert

[Martin Honnen]

Re: How to remove xmlns:xsd at root tag via XmlSerializatio n

Norbert Pürringer wrote:

<Style xmlns:xsd="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
>
You see, that there is an attribute xmlns:xsd. How can I get rid of
that xmlns attribute?

Are you sure it is xmlns:xsd="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
and not xmlns:xsi="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"?
That is the namespace declaration of the XMLSchema-instance namespace
and might be necessary to properly qualify xsi:type or xsi:nil
attributes during serialization.


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RE: How to remove xmlns:xsd at root tag via XmlSerializatio n

Use the following code to get rid of the XML declaration and the namespace
declaration attributes:

// source: source object instance to serialize
// target: target file name to write the XML to
void Serialize(objec t source, string file)
{
XmlWriterSettin gs settings = new XmlWriterSettin gs();
settings.OmitXm lDeclaration = true;
settings.Indent = true;

using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Creat e(file, settings))
{
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(s ource.GetType() );

XmlSerializerNa mespaces namespaces = new XmlSerializerNa mespaces();
namespaces.Add( string.Empty, string.Empty);

serializer.Seri alize(writer, source, namespaces);
}
}