xmlserializer deserialize list containing attributes

Question

I have xml that part of structure looks like this:

<IDList>
    <ValuesList ID="1">
        <Value>1</Value>
        <Value>2</Value>
        <Value>3</Value>
    </ValuesList>
    <ValuesList ID="2">
        <Value>1</Value>
        <Value>2</Value>
        <Value>3</Value>
    </ValuesList>
</IDList>

What should be model classes for xmlserializer, so I could deserialize it properly? On the level of IDList it's quite easy:

    [XmlArray("IDList")]
    [XmlArrayItem("ValuesList")]
    public List<CValuesList> idList = new List<CValuesList>();

but how can I do it when the array element has extra xml attribute?

I tried to do ot in the way shown here:

http://www.codemeit.com/xml/c-xmlserializer-add-an-attribute-to-an-array-element.html

but it didn't worked for me. The elements of the array haven't been deserialized.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 06 '11 at 17:27

There is no simple way to do that.

A good solution would be to create an object that contains a list and your properties and inherit/implements IXmlSerializable.
I've seen some kind of quick and dirty way on this site: http://funcakes.posterous.com/adding-elements-to-lists-in-the-xmlserializer. Since the object doesn't inherit from ISerializable, it won't be serialized as a list by the serializer.

xmlserializer deserialize list containing attributes

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