Is Inner Implicit Child List Content Supported via XmlElementAttribute?

[BianChengNan]

As #243 has been closed. I think I'd better create a new one. sorry for interrupt.

Does ExtendedXml|Serializer support serialize/deserialize such xml structures now? really need this feature.

<MediaContainer size='1'> 
    <MediaItem Name='Name1' Id='1' />
    <MediaItem Name='Name2' Id='2' />
</MediaContainer>

public class MediaContainer
{
    [XmlAttribute("size")]
    public int Size { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("MediaItem")]
    public List<MediaItem> Items { get; set; }
}

public class MediaItem
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [XmlAttribute]
    public string Id { get; set; }
}

[Mike-E-angelo]

Hi @BianChengNan thank you for writing in with your question here. Unfortunately, this is related to a known issue specifically #461 which among other problems does not fully respect implicit inner content of an XmlElementAttribute for list items.

As this project is essentially in maintenance mode, the recommendation now is the same as it is in #243: use XSLT. I acknowledge this is less than ideal and a pain, but it will allow you to cater to both legacy/classic serializer documents while still being able to use ExtendedXmlSerializer.

If you have any further questions around this scenario please do let me know and I will do my best to assist you.

[BianChengNan]

Hi @BianChengNan thank you for writing in with your question here. Unfortunately, this is related to a known issue specifically #461 which among other problems does not fully respect implicit inner content of an XmlElementAttribute for list items.

As this project is essentially in maintenance mode, the recommendation now is the same as it is in #243: use XSLT. I acknowledge this is less than ideal and a pain, but it will allow you to cater to both legacy/classic serializer documents while still being able to use ExtendedXmlSerializer.

If you have any further questions around this scenario please do let me know and I will do my best to assist you.

copy that, thanks for your reply. really appreciate for your hard work and this excellent project.

[Mike-E-angelo]

Thank you very much for the kind words, @BianChengNan. It is much appreciated. 🙏 Please do let me know if you have any further questions (either posting here or a new issue) and I will do my best to assist. Closing this issue for now.