Deserializing XML into an object

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  • Nick
    #1

    Deserializing XML into an object

    Hi,

    I'm facing a problem when I have to deserialize an XML into an object. The
    typical scenario is as follows:
    The XML that I have to deserialize has multiple elements of the same type
    (lets say multiple occurences of <abc />) with different inner texts.
    Now if I use the already available deserialize method of the XMLSerialize
    object, then it returns me only the first element's inner text if I try to
    extract in a variable of type string. However, I would like all the element
    values to come in as an arraylist (preferably). When I tried deserializing
    into a variable of type arraylist, it did not give me anything.
    Is there any way to achieve this?

    I also tried implementing the IXMLSerializabl e interface, but am apparently
    stuck.
    Please help me out!

    Nick
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    • Cor Ligthert
      #2
      Re: Deserializing XML into an object

      Nick,

      Always the same question on this, why not a dataset which has (is build for)
      in my opinion all elements you ask for.

      Cor


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        • Nick
          #3
          Re: Deserializing XML into an object

          But then, won't using a dataset make the application unnecessarily heavy? In
          my case, performance is of utmost importance.
          Keeping in view, the XML I'm dealing with is very elementary, having
          children only of the root node, and no attributes at all whatsoever.
          Something of the sort:
          <abc>
          <xyz>xyz</xyz>
          <pqr>pqr</pqr>....
          (probably about 30-40 elements like this... with some repetition of the
          same element)
          </abc>
          Was earlier using the DOM, but that was about 2-3x slower than this
          XMLSerialize object approach.
          Could you by any chance quantify the time / speed if I use a dataset?

          "Cor Ligthert" wrote:
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          > Nick,
          >
          > Always the same question on this, why not a dataset which has (is build for)
          > in my opinion all elements you ask for.
          >
          > Cor
          >
          >
          >[/color]

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            • Cor Ligthert
              #4
              Re: Deserializing XML into an object

              Nick,

              How many times in a day is your user doing this operation and how much time
              daily is affected with that?

              I have never noticed the time of the reading of this kind of dataset from
              disk.

              How many rows are you thinking about a Million?

              Cor


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