List of Items in XML, howto add the correct attributes

Question

My XML data structure looks like this..

  <SalesOrders>
    <SalesOrder>
      <Id>123</Id>
      ....
    </SalesOrder>
  </SalesOrders>

My C# code look like this.

 [XmlRoot(ElementName = "SalesOrders", Namespace = "")]
 public class SalesOrders : List<SalesOrder> { }
 public class SalesOrder {
    public int Id{get;set;}
 }

Deserializing this works fine, but I'm constrained to that the name of the class "SalesOrder" must match the name of the Tag < SalesOrder >. I'm not able to figure out howto decorate my list or my item in such a way that it is possible to have "name mismatch" on them.. Anyone..

You probably [don´t want to derive from `List`](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21692193/why-not-inherit-from-listt), but just have a class that has a list and an `Id`-property. — MakePeaceGreatAgain, Apr 09 '19 at 08:00

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 09 '19 at 08:06

First off you usually won´t need to - and shouldn´t - inherit List<T>. Instead your class can have a list.

Furthermor you can use the Name-property of the Xml...Attribute in order to provide the different name in the xml than in your class-hierarch.

[XmlRoot(ElementName = "SalesOrders", Namespace = "")]
public class MyArbitraryName
{
    [XmlElement("SalesOrder")]
    public List<SalesOrder> Orders { get; set; }
}

public class SalesOrder 
{
    public int Id{get;set;}
}

List of Items in XML, howto add the correct attributes

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