deserialising xml files with no namespace

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I've created some c# classes from Xsds.

The classes have namespace attributes in the XmlRootAttribut es.

Accordingly, they will NOT deserialize with the XmlSerializer unless the
same namespace is defined.

I've prepared a temporary fix by loading the xml as an XmlDocument, amending
the first element to include the namespace, serialising this to a string and
deserialising to my classes.

But surely there is an easier way....

Iain

[Martin Honnen]

Re: deserialising xml files with no namespace

Iain wrote:

I've created some c# classes from Xsds.
>
The classes have namespace attributes in the XmlRootAttribut es.
>
Accordingly, they will NOT deserialize with the XmlSerializer unless the
same namespace is defined.
>
I've prepared a temporary fix by loading the xml as an XmlDocument, amending
the first element to include the namespace, serialising this to a string and
deserialising to my classes.
>
But surely there is an easier way....

Well the easiest way is to change the XmlRootAttribut e.
If you can't do that then using an XmlParserContex t as follows does work
for me:

string xml = "<Foo><Bar> baz</Bar></Foo>";
XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(t ypeof(Foo));

NameTable nt = new NameTable();
XmlNamespaceMan ager mgr = new XmlNamespaceMan ager(nt);
mgr.AddNamespac e("", "http://example.com/2008/ns1");
XmlParserContex t ctxt = new XmlParserContex t(nt, mgr, "",
XmlSpace.Defaul t);

Foo foo = (Foo)ser.Deseri alize(XmlReader .Create(new
StringReader(xm l), null, ctxt));
Console.WriteLi ne("foo.Bar: {0}", foo.Bar);

where the Foo class is defined as follows:

[XmlRoot(Namespa ce = "http://example.com/2008/ns1")]
public class Foo
{
public string Bar { get; set; }
}


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[Joe Fawcett]

Re: deserialising xml files with no namespace

"Iain" <Iain@discussio ns.microsoft.co mwrote in message
news:D567B0A2-F2C7-47D9-9CAB-E3448349B00A@mi crosoft.com...

I've created some c# classes from Xsds.
>
The classes have namespace attributes in the XmlRootAttribut es.
>
Accordingly, they will NOT deserialize with the XmlSerializer unless the
same namespace is defined.
>
I've prepared a temporary fix by loading the xml as an XmlDocument,
amending
the first element to include the namespace, serialising this to a string
and
deserialising to my classes.
>
But surely there is an easier way....
>
Iain

As well as Martin's suggestion why does the XML to be deserialised not have
the namespaced elements?

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

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