XmlAnyElementAttribute.Namespace Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml.Serialization

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll

Source:

XmlAnyElementAttribute.cs

Gets or sets the XML namespace generated in the XML document.

C#

public string? Namespace { get; set; }

Property Value

String

An XML namespace.

Examples

C#

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Schema;

[XmlRoot(Namespace = "http://www.cohowinery.com")]
public class Group{
   public string GroupName;

   // This is for serializing Employee elements.
   [XmlAnyElement(Name = "Employee")]
   public XmlElement[] UnknownEmployees;

   // This is for serializing City elements.   
   [XmlAnyElement
   (Name = "City", 
   Namespace = "http://www.cpandl.com")]
   public XmlElement[] UnknownCity;

    // This one is for all other unknown elements.
   [XmlAnyElement]
   public XmlElement[] UnknownElements;
}

public class Test{
   static void Main(){
      Test t = new Test();
      t.SerializeObject("AnyElementArray.xml");
      t.DeserializeObject("AnyElementArray.xml");
      Console.WriteLine("Done");
   }

   private void SerializeObject(string filename){
      XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Group));
      // Create an XmlNamespaces to use.
      XmlSerializerNamespaces namespaces =
      new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
      namespaces.Add("c", "http://www.cohowinery.com");
      namespaces.Add("i", "http://www.cpandl.com");
      Group myGroup = new Group();
      // Create arrays of arbitrary XmlElement objects.
      // First create an XmlDocument, used to create the 
      // XmlElement objects.
      XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();

      // Create an array of Employee XmlElement objects.
      XmlElement El1 = xDoc.CreateElement("Employee", "http://www.cohowinery.com");
      El1.InnerText = "John";
      XmlElement El2 = xDoc.CreateElement("Employee", "http://www.cohowinery.com");
      El2.InnerText = "Joan";
      XmlElement El3 = xDoc.CreateElement("Employee", "http://www.cohowinery.com");
      El3.InnerText = "Jim";
      myGroup.UnknownEmployees= new XmlElement[]{El1, El2, El3};     
    
      // Create an array of City XmlElement objects.
      XmlElement inf1 = xDoc.CreateElement("City", "http://www.cpandl.com");
      inf1.InnerText = "Tokyo";
      XmlElement inf2 = xDoc.CreateElement("City", "http://www.cpandl.com");     
      inf2.InnerText = "New York";
      XmlElement inf3 = xDoc.CreateElement("City", "http://www.cpandl.com");     
      inf3.InnerText = "Rome";

      myGroup.UnknownCity = new XmlElement[]{inf1, inf2, inf3};

      XmlElement xEl1 = xDoc.CreateElement("bld");
      xEl1.InnerText = "42";
      XmlElement xEl2 = xDoc.CreateElement("Region");
      xEl2.InnerText = "West";
      XmlElement xEl3 = xDoc.CreateElement("type");
      xEl3.InnerText = "Technical";
      myGroup.UnknownElements = 
        new XmlElement[]{xEl1,xEl2,xEl3};
      // Serialize the class, and close the TextWriter.
      TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filename);
      ser.Serialize(writer, myGroup, namespaces);
      writer.Close();
   }

   private void DeserializeObject(string filename){
      XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Group));
      FileStream fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open);
      Group myGroup;
      myGroup = (Group)ser.Deserialize(fs);
      fs.Close();
      foreach(XmlElement xEmp in myGroup.UnknownEmployees){
         Console.WriteLine(xEmp.LocalName + ": " + xEmp.InnerText);}
      foreach(XmlElement xCity in myGroup.UnknownCity){
         Console.WriteLine(xCity.LocalName + ": " + xCity.InnerText);}
      foreach(XmlElement xEl in myGroup.UnknownElements){
         Console.WriteLine(xEl.LocalName + ": " + xEl.InnerText);}
   }
 }

Remarks

The Namespace property allows you to set a unique name for the XML attribute. The Namespace property conforms to the rules for creating an XML namespace as found in the Namespaces in XML document from the World Wide Web Consortium.

To set the Namespace property to a prefixed name, create an XmlSerializerNamespaces that contains the namespaces and prefixes used in the XML document. Set the Namespace property to one of the namespaces in the XmlSerializerNamespaces. When the XML is generated, the attribute name is correctly prefixed with the prefix associated with the specified namespace.

Applies to