How to serialize to xml return type

Question

Hello Everyone,

I have below models and i need the return xml response like below. Here how to do this. please help me

public class School
    {        
        public List<Student> StudentList;        
        public int SchoolID { get; set; }       
        public string  SchoolName { get; set; }
    }
public class Student
{ 
  public string StudentName { get; set; }
  public string ClassName { get; set; }
  public int ? Age { get; set; }          
}

Required Output

<RESPONSE>
    <School>
        <SchoolID>102</SchoolID>
        <SchoolName>ABC</SchoolName>
        <StudentList>
            <Student>
                <StudentName>JOHN</StudentName>
                <ClassName>IX</ClassName>
                <Age>13</Age>
            </Student>
            <Student>
                <StudentName>Taylor</StudentName>
                <ClassName>IIX</ClassName>
                <Age>11</Age>
            </Student>
        </StudentList>
    </School>
    <School>
        <SchoolID>103</SchoolID>
        <SchoolName>BCD</SchoolName>
        <StudentList>
            <Student>
                <StudentName>CHRIS</StudentName>
                <ClassName>IV</ClassName>
                <Age>9</Age>
            </Student>
            <Student>
            </StudentList>
        </School>
    </RESPONSE>

Thanks,
King

Answer 1

Try something like this:

List<School> myschools = . . . the list of the schools

var xr = new XmlSerializer( typeof( List<School> ), new XmlRootAttribute { ElementName = "RESPONSE" } );

string xml;

using( var sw = new StringWriter( ) )
{
    xr.Serialize( sw, myschools );

    xml = sw.ToString( );
}

// display the result
Console.WriteLine( xml );