How do I specify XML serialization attributes to support namespace prefixes during deserialization in .NET?
I have a following XML:
<person xmlns:a="http://example.com" xmlns:b="http://sample.net">
<a:fName>John</a:fName>
<a:lName>Wayne</a:lName>
<b:age>37</b:age>
</person>
How do I define XML serialization attributes on a class to support described scenario?
Solution 1:
You'll need to indicate which namespaces each field requires by using Namespace of XmlElement attribute. This will allow you to associate a field with a particular namespace, but you'll also need to expose a property on your class that returns type XmlNamespaceDeclarations in order to get the prefix association.
See documentation and sample below:
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "person")]
public class Person
{
[XmlElement(Namespace = "http://example.com")]
public string fname;
[XmlElement(Namespace = "http://sample.com")]
public string lname;
[XmlNamespaceDeclarations]
public XmlSerializerNamespaces xmlns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
public Person()
{
xmlns.Add("a", "http://example.com");
xmlns.Add("b", "http://sample.com");
}
}