XmlArrayAttribute.Namespace Property

Definition

Gets or sets the namespace of the XML element.

public string Namespace { get; set; }
public string? Namespace { get; set; }

Property Value

The namespace of the XML element.

Examples

The following example serializes an instance of the Library class that contains two members, one that contain book titles, and another that contain periodical titles. Although both XML elements are named Titles, each contains a different prefix. The example also includes an instance of the XmlSerializerNamespaces class that contains the namespaces and prefixes used to qualify the two element names.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

public class Library
   {
   private Book[] books;
   private Periodical [] periodicals;
   /* This element will be qualified with the prefix
   that is associated with the namespace http://wwww.cpandl.com. */
   [XmlArray(ElementName = "Titles",
   Namespace="http://wwww.cpandl.com")]
   public Book[] Books
   {
      get{return books;}
      set{books = value;}
   }
   /* This element will be qualified with the prefix that is
   associated with the namespace http://www.proseware.com. */
   [XmlArray(ElementName = "Titles", Namespace =
   "http://www.proseware.com")]
   public Periodical[] Periodicals
   {
      get{return periodicals;}
      set{periodicals = value;}
   }
}

public class Book
{
   public string Title;
   public string Author;
   public string ISBN;
   [XmlAttribute]
   public string Publisher;
}

public class Periodical
{
   private string title;
   public string Title
   {
      get{return title;}
      set{title = value;}
   }
}

public class Run
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      Run test = new Run();
      test.WriteBook("MyLibrary.xml");
      test.ReadBook("MyLibrary.xml");
   }

   public void WriteBook(string filename)
   {
      // Creates a new XmlSerializer.
      XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Library));
      // Writing the file requires a StreamWriter.
      TextWriter myStreamWriter = new StreamWriter(filename);
      /* Creates an XmlSerializerNamespaces and adds prefixes and
      namespaces to be used. */
      XmlSerializerNamespaces myNamespaces =
      new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
      myNamespaces.Add("books", "http://wwww.cpandl.com");
      myNamespaces.Add("magazines", "http://www.proseware.com");
      // Creates an instance of the class to be serialized.
      Library myLibrary = new Library();

      // Creates two book objects.
      Book b1 = new Book();
      b1.Title = "My Book Title";
      b1.Author = "An Author";
      b1.ISBN = "000000000";
      b1.Publisher = "Microsoft Press";

      Book b2 = new Book();
      b2.Title = "Another Book Title";
      b2.Author = "Another Author";
      b2.ISBN = "00000001";
      b2.Publisher = "Another Press";

      /* Creates an array using the objects, and sets the Books property
      to the array. */
      Book[] myBooks = {b1,b2};
      myLibrary.Books = myBooks;

      // Creates two Periodical objects.
      Periodical per1 = new Periodical();
      per1.Title = "My Magazine Title";
      Periodical per2 = new Periodical();
      per2.Title = "Another Magazine Title";

      // Sets the Periodicals property to the array.
      Periodical[] myPeridocials = {per1, per2};
      myLibrary.Periodicals = myPeridocials;

      // Serializes the myLibrary object.
      mySerializer.Serialize(myStreamWriter, myLibrary, myNamespaces);

       myStreamWriter.Close();
    }

   public void ReadBook(string filename)
   {
      /* Creates an instance of an XmlSerializer
      with the class used to read the document. */
      XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Library));
      // A FileStream is needed to read the file.
      FileStream myFileStream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open);

      Library myLibrary = (Library) mySerializer.Deserialize(myFileStream);

      // Reads each book in the array returned by the Books property.
      for(int i = 0; i< myLibrary.Books.Length;i++)
      {
         Console.WriteLine(myLibrary.Books[i].Title);
         Console.WriteLine(myLibrary.Books[i].Author);
         Console.WriteLine(myLibrary.Books[i].ISBN);
         Console.WriteLine(myLibrary.Books[i].Publisher);
         Console.WriteLine();
      }
      // Reads each Periodical returned by the Periodicals property.
      for(int i = 0; i< myLibrary.Periodicals.Length;i++)
      {
         Console.WriteLine(myLibrary.Periodicals[i].Title);
      }
   }
}

Remarks

The Namespace property allows you to create qualified XML element names. The Namespace property conforms to the rules for creating an XML namespace as found in the 1999 World Wide Web Consortium document titled Namespaces in XML.

To create namespaces that are associated with a prefix, you must create an instance of the XmlSerializerNamespaces class that contains the namespaces and prefixes used in the XML document. As you set the namespace for each XmlArrayAttribute, it must match one of the namespaces in the XmlSerializerNamespaces. When the XML is generated, each array is correctly prefixed with the prefix associated with the specified namespace.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0

See also