How to initialize XmlElement[]?

Question

I have an auto generated proxy class which contains field XmlElement[] Any. In the protocol specification a variety of other types are allowed. How would I initialize this field?

I might have, for example, something like:

 Any = new XmlElement[1]; Any[0] = new SomeRequestType().AsXmlElement()

How would I make room for AsXmlElement in my code?

public partial class AppDataType { private System.Xml.XmlElement[] anyField; private System.Xml.XmlAttribute[] anyAttrField; /// <remarks/> [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAnyElementAttribute(Order=0)] public System.Xml.XmlElement[] Any { get { return this.anyField; } set { this.anyField = value; } }

See stackoverflow.com/questions/3703127/… or stackoverflow.com/questions/215515/…. — dbc
– dbc, Commented Sep 28, 2015 at 3:24

dbc · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-02 05:09:45Z

To serialize directly from and to an XmlElement, you can use:

public static class XmlNodeExtensions { public static XmlDocument AsXmlDocument<T>(this T o, XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = null, XmlSerializer serializer = null) { XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); using (XmlWriter writer = doc.CreateNavigator().AppendChild()) new XmlSerializer(o.GetType()).Serialize(writer, o, ns); return doc; } public static XmlElement AsXmlElement<T>(this T o, XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = null, XmlSerializer serializer = null) { return o.AsXmlDocument(ns, serializer).DocumentElement; } public static T Deserialize<T>(this XmlElement element, XmlSerializer serializer = null) { using (var reader = new ProperXmlNodeReader(element)) return (T)(serializer ?? new XmlSerializer(typeof(T))).Deserialize(reader); } /// <summary> /// Return an XmlSerializerNamespaces that disables the default xmlns:xsi and xmlns:xsd lines. /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> public static XmlSerializerNamespaces NoStandardXmlNamespaces() { var ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(); ns.Add("", ""); // Disable the xmlns:xsi and xmlns:xsd lines. return ns; } } public class ProperXmlNodeReader : XmlNodeReader { // Bug fix from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30102275/deserialize-object-property-with-stringreader-vs-xmlnodereader public ProperXmlNodeReader(XmlNode node) : base(node) { } public override string LookupNamespace(string prefix) { return NameTable.Add(base.LookupNamespace(prefix)); } }

And then use it like:

 var appDataType = new AppDataType { Any = new[] { someRequestType.AsXmlElement() }, };

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