XmlAttributes.XmlElements Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml.Serialization

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Xml.XmlSerializer.dll

Source:

XmlAttributes.cs

Gets a collection of objects that specify how the XmlSerializer serializes a public field or read/write property as an XML element.

C#

public System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttributes XmlElements { get; }

Property Value

XmlElementAttributes

An XmlElementAttributes that contains a collection of XmlElementAttribute objects.

Examples

The following example serializes the Transportation class, which contains a single field named Vehicles that returns an ArrayList. The example applies two XmlElementAttribute attributes to the Vehicles field. The example creates two XmlElementAttribute objects and adds them to the XmlElementAttributes collection of an XmlAttributes object. To allow the array to accept different object types, the XmlAttributes object is added to the XmlAttributeOverrides object.

C#

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

public class Transportation
{
   // Subsequent code overrides these two XmlElementAttributes.
   [XmlElement(typeof(Car)),
   XmlElement(typeof(Plane))]
   public ArrayList Vehicles;
}

public class Car
{
   public string Name;
}

public class Plane
{
   public string Name;
}
public class Truck
{
   public string Name;
}
public class Train
{
   public string Name;
}

public class Test
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      Test t = new Test();
      t.SerializeObject("OverrideElement.xml");
   }

   // Return an XmlSerializer used for overriding.
   public XmlSerializer CreateOverrider()
   {
      // Create the XmlAttributes and XmlAttributeOverrides objects.
      XmlAttributes attrs = new XmlAttributes();

      XmlAttributeOverrides xOver =
      new XmlAttributeOverrides();

      /* Create an XmlElementAttribute to override
      the Vehicles property. */
      XmlElementAttribute xElement1 =
      new XmlElementAttribute(typeof(Truck));
      // Add the XmlElementAttribute to the collection.
      attrs.XmlElements.Add(xElement1);

      /* Create a second XmlElementAttribute, and
      add it to the collection. */
      XmlElementAttribute xElement2 =
      new XmlElementAttribute(typeof(Train));
      attrs.XmlElements.Add(xElement2);

      /* Add the XmlAttributes to the XmlAttributeOverrides,
      specifying the member to override. */
      xOver.Add(typeof(Transportation), "Vehicles", attrs);

      // Create the XmlSerializer, and return it.
      XmlSerializer xSer = new XmlSerializer
      (typeof(Transportation), xOver);
      return xSer;
   }

   public void SerializeObject(string filename)
   {
      // Create an XmlSerializer instance.
      XmlSerializer xSer = CreateOverrider();

      // Create the object and serialize it.
      Transportation myTransportation =
      new Transportation();

      /* Create two new override objects that can be
      inserted into the array. */
      myTransportation.Vehicles = new ArrayList();
      Truck myTruck = new Truck();
      myTruck.Name = "MyTruck";

      Train myTrain = new Train();
      myTrain.Name = "MyTrain";

      myTransportation.Vehicles.Add(myTruck);
      myTransportation.Vehicles.Add(myTrain);

      TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filename);
      xSer.Serialize(writer, myTransportation);
   }
}

Remarks

For each overridden member that is serialized as an XML element, you must add a new XmlElementAttribute to an XmlElementAttributes by calling the Add method. By default, an XmlElementAttributes object is created and assigned to the XmlElements property.

Applies to