How to Deserialize XML document

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How do I Deserialize this XML document    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt Cars gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1020 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Nissan lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Sentra lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1010 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Toyota lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Corolla lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1111 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Honda lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Accord lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt   lt  Cars gt    I have this    Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElementAttribute  StockNumber        public string StockNumber  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElementAttribute  Make        public string Make  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElementAttribute  Model        public string Model  get  set            System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlArrayItem typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set            public class CarSerializer       public Cars Deserialize                 Cars   cars   null          string path   HttpContext Current ApplicationInstance Server MapPath    App Data       cars xml            XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof Cars               StreamReader reader   new StreamReader path           reader ReadToEnd            cars    Cars   serializer Deserialize reader           reader Close             return cars            that don t seem to work  -

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try this block of code if your  xml file has been generated somewhere in disk and if you have used List lt T gt      deserialization  XmlSerializer xmlser   new XmlSerializer typeof List lt Item gt     StreamReader srdr   new StreamReader   C  serialize xml    List lt Item gt  p    List lt Item gt  xmlser Deserialize srdr   srdr Close       Note  C  serialize xml is my  xml file s path  You can change it for your needs

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Here s a working version   I changed the XmlElementAttribute labels to XmlElement because in the xml the StockNumber  Make and Model values are elements  not attributes   Also I removed the reader ReadToEnd     that function reads the whole stream and returns a string  so the Deserialize   function couldn t use the reader anymore   the position was at the end of the stream    I also took a few liberties with the naming      Here are the classes    Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElement  StockNumber        public string StockNumber   get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement  Make        public string Make   get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement  Model        public string Model   get  set         Serializable     System Xml Serialization XmlRoot  CarCollection    public class CarCollection        XmlArray  Cars         XmlArrayItem  Car   typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set        The Deserialize function   CarCollection cars   null  string path    cars xml    XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection     StreamReader reader   new StreamReader path   cars    CarCollection serializer Deserialize reader   reader Close      And the slightly tweaked xml  I needed to add a new element to wrap  lt Cars gt    Net is picky about deserializing arrays     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt CarCollection gt   lt Cars gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1020 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Nissan lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Sentra lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1010 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Toyota lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Corolla lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1111 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Honda lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Accord lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt   lt  Cars gt   lt  CarCollection gt

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The following snippet should do the trick  and you can ignore most of the serialization attributes    public class Car     public string StockNumber   get  set      public string Make   get  set      public string Model   get  set        XmlRootAttribute  Cars    public class CarCollection      XmlElement  Car      public Car   Cars   get  set             using  TextReader reader   new StreamReader path       XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection      return  CarCollection  serializer Deserialize reader

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See if this helps    Serializable     System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlArrayItem typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set            Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string StockNumber  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string Make  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string Model  get  set        And failing that use the xsd exe program that comes with visual studio to create a schema document based on that xml file  and then use it again to create a class based on the schema document

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How about you just save the xml to a file  and use xsd to generate C  classes    Write the file to disk  I named it foo xml  Generate the xsd  xsd foo xml Generate the C   xsd foo xsd  classes   Et voila - and C  code file that should be able to read the data via XmlSerializer       XmlSerializer ser   new XmlSerializer typeof Cars        Cars cars      using  XmlReader reader   XmlReader Create path                 cars    Cars  ser Deserialize reader            include the generated foo cs in the project

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Kevin s anser is good  aside from the fact  that in the real world  you are often not able to alter the original XML to suit your needs   There s a simple solution for the original XML  too    XmlRoot  Cars    public class XmlData        XmlElement  Car        public List lt Car gt  Cars  get  set       public class Car       public string StockNumber   get  set        public string Make   get  set        public string Model   get  set        And then you can simply call   var ser   new XmlSerializer typeof XmlData    XmlData data    XmlData ser Deserialize XmlReader Create PathToCarsXml

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The following snippet should do the trick  and you can ignore most of the serialization attributes    public class Car     public string StockNumber   get  set      public string Make   get  set      public string Model   get  set        XmlRootAttribute  Cars    public class CarCollection      XmlElement  Car      public Car   Cars   get  set             using  TextReader reader   new StreamReader path       XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection      return  CarCollection  serializer Deserialize reader

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How about you just save the xml to a file  and use xsd to generate C  classes    Write the file to disk  I named it foo xml  Generate the xsd  xsd foo xml Generate the C   xsd foo xsd  classes   Et voila - and C  code file that should be able to read the data via XmlSerializer       XmlSerializer ser   new XmlSerializer typeof Cars        Cars cars      using  XmlReader reader   XmlReader Create path                 cars    Cars  ser Deserialize reader            include the generated foo cs in the project

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You have two possibilities    Method 1  XSD tool   Suppose that you have your XML file in this location C  path to xml file xml   Open Developer Command Prompt You can find it in Start Menu  gt  Programs  gt  Microsoft Visual Studio 2012  gt  Visual Studio Tools  Or if you have Windows 8 can just start typing Developer Command Prompt in Start screen Change location to your XML file directory by typing cd  D  C  path to xml  Create XSD file from your xml file by typing xsd file xml  Create C  classes by typing xsd  c file xsd   And that s it  You have generated C  classes from xml file in C  path to xml file cs  Method 2 - Paste special   Required Visual Studio 2012    Copy content of your XML file to clipboard Add to your solution new  empty class file  Shift Alt C  Open that file and in menu click Edit  gt  Paste special  gt  Paste XML As Classes    And that s it    Usage    Usage is very simple with this helper class   using System  using System IO  using System Web Script Serialization     Add reference  System Web Extensions using System Xml  using System Xml Serialization   namespace Helpers       internal static class ParseHelpers               private static JavaScriptSerializer json          private static JavaScriptSerializer JSON   get   return json     json   new JavaScriptSerializer                  public static Stream ToStream this string  this                        var stream   new MemoryStream                var writer   new StreamWriter stream               writer Write  this               writer Flush                stream Position   0              return stream                      public static T ParseXML lt T gt  this string  this  where T   class                       var reader   XmlReader Create  this Trim   ToStream    new XmlReaderSettings     ConformanceLevel   ConformanceLevel Document                 return new XmlSerializer typeof T   Deserialize reader  as T                     public static T ParseJSON lt T gt  this string  this  where T   class                       return JSON Deserialize lt T gt   this Trim                         All you have to do now  is       public class JSONRoot               public catalog catalog   get  set                          string xml   File ReadAllText   D  file xml        var catalog1   xml ParseXML lt catalog gt          string json   File ReadAllText   D  file json        var catalog2   json ParseJSON lt JSONRoot gt

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async public static Task lt JObject gt  XMLtoNETAsync XmlDocument ToConvert          Van XML naar JSON     string jsonText   await Task Run      gt  JsonConvert SerializeXmlNode ToConvert           Van JSON naar  net object     var o   await Task Run      gt  JObject Parse jsonText         return o

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You can just change one attribute for you Cars car property from XmlArrayItem to XmlElment  That is  from   System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlArrayItem typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set        to    System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlElement  Car        public Car   Car   get  set

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You have two possibilities    Method 1  XSD tool   Suppose that you have your XML file in this location C  path to xml file xml   Open Developer Command Prompt You can find it in Start Menu  gt  Programs  gt  Microsoft Visual Studio 2012  gt  Visual Studio Tools  Or if you have Windows 8 can just start typing Developer Command Prompt in Start screen Change location to your XML file directory by typing cd  D  C  path to xml  Create XSD file from your xml file by typing xsd file xml  Create C  classes by typing xsd  c file xsd   And that s it  You have generated C  classes from xml file in C  path to xml file cs  Method 2 - Paste special   Required Visual Studio 2012    Copy content of your XML file to clipboard Add to your solution new  empty class file  Shift Alt C  Open that file and in menu click Edit  gt  Paste special  gt  Paste XML As Classes    And that s it    Usage    Usage is very simple with this helper class   using System  using System IO  using System Web Script Serialization     Add reference  System Web Extensions using System Xml  using System Xml Serialization   namespace Helpers       internal static class ParseHelpers               private static JavaScriptSerializer json          private static JavaScriptSerializer JSON   get   return json     json   new JavaScriptSerializer                  public static Stream ToStream this string  this                        var stream   new MemoryStream                var writer   new StreamWriter stream               writer Write  this               writer Flush                stream Position   0              return stream                      public static T ParseXML lt T gt  this string  this  where T   class                       var reader   XmlReader Create  this Trim   ToStream    new XmlReaderSettings     ConformanceLevel   ConformanceLevel Document                 return new XmlSerializer typeof T   Deserialize reader  as T                     public static T ParseJSON lt T gt  this string  this  where T   class                       return JSON Deserialize lt T gt   this Trim                         All you have to do now  is       public class JSONRoot               public catalog catalog   get  set                          string xml   File ReadAllText   D  file xml        var catalog1   xml ParseXML lt catalog gt          string json   File ReadAllText   D  file json        var catalog2   json ParseJSON lt JSONRoot gt

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How about a generic class to deserialize an XML document                                                                                      Generic class to load any xml into a class    used like this        YourClassTypeHere InfoList   LoadXMLFileIntoClass lt YourClassTypeHere gt  xmlFile    using System IO  using System Xml Serialization   public static T LoadXMLFileIntoClass lt T gt  string xmlFile        T returnThis      XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof T        if   FileAndIO FileExists xmlFile                 Console WriteLine  FileDoesNotExistError  0    xmlFile             returnThis    T serializer Deserialize new StreamReader xmlFile        return  T returnThis      This part may  or may not be necessary  Open the XML document in Visual Studio  right click on the XML  choose properties  Then choose your schema file

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How about you just save the xml to a file  and use xsd to generate C  classes    Write the file to disk  I named it foo xml  Generate the xsd  xsd foo xml Generate the C   xsd foo xsd  classes   Et voila - and C  code file that should be able to read the data via XmlSerializer       XmlSerializer ser   new XmlSerializer typeof Cars        Cars cars      using  XmlReader reader   XmlReader Create path                 cars    Cars  ser Deserialize reader            include the generated foo cs in the project

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If you re getting errors using xsd exe to create your xsd file  then use the XmlSchemaInference class  as mentioned on msdn   Here s a unit test to demonstrate   using System Xml  using System Xml Schema    TestMethod  public void GenerateXsdFromXmlTest         string folder     C  mydir mydata xmlToCSharp       XmlReader reader   XmlReader Create folder     some xml xml        XmlSchemaSet schemaSet   new XmlSchemaSet        XmlSchemaInference schema   new XmlSchemaInference         schemaSet   schema InferSchema reader         foreach  XmlSchema s in schemaSet Schemas                  XmlWriter xsdFile   new XmlTextWriter folder     some xsd xsd   System Text Encoding UTF8           s Write xsdFile           xsdFile Close                now from the visual studio command line type  xsd some xsd xsd  classes

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For Beginners I found the answers here to be very helpful  that said I still struggled  just a bit  to get this working  So  in case it helps someone I ll spell out the working solution  XML from Original Question  The xml is in a file Class1 xml  a path to this file is used in the code to locate this xml file  I used the answer by  erymski to get this working  so created a file called Car cs and added the following   using System Xml Serialization      Added  public class Car       public string StockNumber   get  set        public string Make   get  set        public string Model   get  set        XmlRootAttribute  quot Cars quot    public class CarCollection        XmlElement  quot Car quot        public Car   Cars   get  set        The other bit of code provided by  erymski      using  TextReader reader   new StreamReader path       XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection      return  CarCollection  serializer Deserialize reader           goes into your main program  Program cs   in static CarCollection XCar   like this  using System  using System IO  using System Xml Serialization   namespace ConsoleApp2       class Program                public static void Main                         var c   new CarCollection                 c   XCar                 foreach  var k in c Cars                                Console WriteLine k Make    quot   quot    k Model    quot   quot    k StockNumber                             c   null              Console ReadLine                       static CarCollection XCar                         using  TextReader reader   new StreamReader   quot C  Users SlowLearner source repos ConsoleApp2 ConsoleApp2 Class1 xml quot                                  XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection                    return  CarCollection serializer Deserialize reader                                    Hope it helps  -

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One liner   var object    Cars new XmlSerializer typeof Cars   Deserialize new StringReader xmlString

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See if this helps    Serializable     System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlArrayItem typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set            Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string StockNumber  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string Make  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string Model  get  set        And failing that use the xsd exe program that comes with visual studio to create a schema document based on that xml file  and then use it again to create a class based on the schema document

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I don t think  net is  picky about deserializing arrays   The first xml document is not well formed  There is no root element  although it looks like there is  The canonical xml document has a root and at least 1 element  if at all   In your example    lt Root gt   lt -- well  the root    lt Cars gt   lt -- an element  not a root   it being an array      lt Car gt   lt -- an element  it being an array item              lt  Car gt     lt  Cars gt   lt  Root gt

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Try this Generic Class For Xml Serialization  amp  Deserialization                      public class SerializeConfig lt T gt  where T   class       public static void Serialize string path  T type                var serializer   new XmlSerializer type GetType             using  var writer   new FileStream path  FileMode Create                         serializer Serialize writer  type                        public static T DeSerialize string path                T type          var serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof T            using  var reader   XmlReader Create path                         type   serializer Deserialize reader  as T                    return type

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Here s a working version   I changed the XmlElementAttribute labels to XmlElement because in the xml the StockNumber  Make and Model values are elements  not attributes   Also I removed the reader ReadToEnd     that function reads the whole stream and returns a string  so the Deserialize   function couldn t use the reader anymore   the position was at the end of the stream    I also took a few liberties with the naming      Here are the classes    Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElement  StockNumber        public string StockNumber   get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement  Make        public string Make   get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement  Model        public string Model   get  set         Serializable     System Xml Serialization XmlRoot  CarCollection    public class CarCollection        XmlArray  Cars         XmlArrayItem  Car   typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set        The Deserialize function   CarCollection cars   null  string path    cars xml    XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection     StreamReader reader   new StreamReader path   cars    CarCollection serializer Deserialize reader   reader Close      And the slightly tweaked xml  I needed to add a new element to wrap  lt Cars gt    Net is picky about deserializing arrays     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt CarCollection gt   lt Cars gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1020 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Nissan lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Sentra lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1010 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Toyota lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Corolla lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1111 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Honda lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Accord lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt   lt  Cars gt   lt  CarCollection gt

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One liner   var object    Cars new XmlSerializer typeof Cars   Deserialize new StringReader xmlString

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Try this Generic Class For Xml Serialization  amp  Deserialization                      public class SerializeConfig lt T gt  where T   class       public static void Serialize string path  T type                var serializer   new XmlSerializer type GetType             using  var writer   new FileStream path  FileMode Create                         serializer Serialize writer  type                        public static T DeSerialize string path                T type          var serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof T            using  var reader   XmlReader Create path                         type   serializer Deserialize reader  as T                    return type

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You can just change one attribute for you Cars car property from XmlArrayItem to XmlElment  That is  from   System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlArrayItem typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set        to    System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlElement  Car        public Car   Car   get  set

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The following snippet should do the trick  and you can ignore most of the serialization attributes    public class Car     public string StockNumber   get  set      public string Make   get  set      public string Model   get  set        XmlRootAttribute  Cars    public class CarCollection      XmlElement  Car      public Car   Cars   get  set             using  TextReader reader   new StreamReader path       XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection      return  CarCollection  serializer Deserialize reader

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See if this helps    Serializable     System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlArrayItem typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set            Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string StockNumber  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string Make  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string Model  get  set        And failing that use the xsd exe program that comes with visual studio to create a schema document based on that xml file  and then use it again to create a class based on the schema document

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I don t think  net is  picky about deserializing arrays   The first xml document is not well formed  There is no root element  although it looks like there is  The canonical xml document has a root and at least 1 element  if at all   In your example    lt Root gt   lt -- well  the root    lt Cars gt   lt -- an element  not a root   it being an array      lt Car gt   lt -- an element  it being an array item              lt  Car gt     lt  Cars gt   lt  Root gt

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The idea is to have all level being handled for deserialization Please see  a sample solution that solved my similar issue  lt  xml version  quot 1 0 quot    gt     lt TRANSACTION RESPONSE gt       lt TRANSACTION gt           lt TRANSACTION ID gt 25429 lt  TRANSACTION ID gt            lt MERCHANT ACC NO gt 02700701354375000964 lt  MERCHANT ACC NO gt            lt TXN STATUS gt F lt  TXN STATUS gt            lt TXN SIGNATURE gt a16af68d4c3e2280e44bd7c2c23f2af6cb1f0e5a28c266ea741608e72b1a5e4224da5b975909cc43c53b6c0f7f1bbf0820269caa3e350dd1812484edc499b279 lt  TXN SIGNATURE gt            lt TXN SIGNATURE2 gt B1684258EA112C8B5BA51F73CDA9864D1BB98E04F5A78B67A3E539BEF96CCF4D16CFF6B9E04818B50E855E0783BB075309D112CA596BDC49F9738C4BF3AA1FB4 lt  TXN SIGNATURE2 gt            lt TRAN DATE gt 29-09-2015 07 36 59 lt  TRAN DATE gt            lt MERCHANT TRANID gt 150929093703RUDZMX4 lt  MERCHANT TRANID gt            lt RESPONSE CODE gt 9967 lt  RESPONSE CODE gt            lt RESPONSE DESC gt Bank rejected transaction  lt  RESPONSE DESC gt            lt CUSTOMER ID gt RUDZMX lt  CUSTOMER ID gt            lt AUTH ID   gt            lt AUTH DATE   gt            lt CAPTURE DATE   gt            lt SALES DATE   gt            lt VOID REV DATE   gt            lt REFUND DATE   gt            lt REFUND AMOUNT gt 0 00 lt  REFUND AMOUNT gt        lt  TRANSACTION gt     lt  TRANSACTION RESPONSE gt    The above XML is handled in  two level    XmlType  quot TRANSACTION RESPONSE quot    public class TransactionResponse        XmlElement  quot TRANSACTION quot        public BankQueryResponse Response   get  set        The Inner level public class BankQueryResponse        XmlElement  quot TRANSACTION ID quot        public string TransactionId   get  set          XmlElement  quot MERCHANT ACC NO quot        public string MerchantAccNo   get  set          XmlElement  quot TXN SIGNATURE quot        public string TxnSignature   get  set          XmlElement  quot TRAN DATE quot        public DateTime TranDate   get  set          XmlElement  quot TXN STATUS quot        public string TxnStatus   get  set           XmlElement  quot REFUND DATE quot        public DateTime RefundDate   get  set          XmlElement  quot RESPONSE CODE quot        public string ResponseCode   get  set           XmlElement  quot RESPONSE DESC quot        public string ResponseDesc   get  set          XmlAttribute  quot MERCHANT TRANID quot        public string MerchantTranId   get  set        Same Way you need multiple level with car as array Check this example for multilevel  deserialization

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For Beginners I found the answers here to be very helpful  that said I still struggled  just a bit  to get this working  So  in case it helps someone I ll spell out the working solution  XML from Original Question  The xml is in a file Class1 xml  a path to this file is used in the code to locate this xml file  I used the answer by  erymski to get this working  so created a file called Car cs and added the following   using System Xml Serialization      Added  public class Car       public string StockNumber   get  set        public string Make   get  set        public string Model   get  set        XmlRootAttribute  quot Cars quot    public class CarCollection        XmlElement  quot Car quot        public Car   Cars   get  set        The other bit of code provided by  erymski      using  TextReader reader   new StreamReader path       XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection      return  CarCollection  serializer Deserialize reader           goes into your main program  Program cs   in static CarCollection XCar   like this  using System  using System IO  using System Xml Serialization   namespace ConsoleApp2       class Program                public static void Main                         var c   new CarCollection                 c   XCar                 foreach  var k in c Cars                                Console WriteLine k Make    quot   quot    k Model    quot   quot    k StockNumber                             c   null              Console ReadLine                       static CarCollection XCar                         using  TextReader reader   new StreamReader   quot C  Users SlowLearner source repos ConsoleApp2 ConsoleApp2 Class1 xml quot                                  XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection                    return  CarCollection serializer Deserialize reader                                    Hope it helps  -

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Kevin s anser is good  aside from the fact  that in the real world  you are often not able to alter the original XML to suit your needs   There s a simple solution for the original XML  too    XmlRoot  Cars    public class XmlData        XmlElement  Car        public List lt Car gt  Cars  get  set       public class Car       public string StockNumber   get  set        public string Make   get  set        public string Model   get  set        And then you can simply call   var ser   new XmlSerializer typeof XmlData    XmlData data    XmlData ser Deserialize XmlReader Create PathToCarsXml

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My solution    Use Edit  gt  Past Special  gt  Paste XML As Classes to get the class in your code Try something like this  create a list of that class  List lt class1    then use the XmlSerializer to serialize that list to a xml file  Now you just replace the body of that file with your data and try to deserialize it    Code    StreamReader sr   new StreamReader   C  Users duongngh Desktop Newfolder abc txt    XmlSerializer xml   new XmlSerializer typeof Class1      var a   xml Deserialize sr   sr Close      NOTE  you must pay attention to the root name  don t change it  Mine is  ArrayOfClass1

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Here s a working version   I changed the XmlElementAttribute labels to XmlElement because in the xml the StockNumber  Make and Model values are elements  not attributes   Also I removed the reader ReadToEnd     that function reads the whole stream and returns a string  so the Deserialize   function couldn t use the reader anymore   the position was at the end of the stream    I also took a few liberties with the naming      Here are the classes    Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElement  StockNumber        public string StockNumber   get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement  Make        public string Make   get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement  Model        public string Model   get  set         Serializable     System Xml Serialization XmlRoot  CarCollection    public class CarCollection        XmlArray  Cars         XmlArrayItem  Car   typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set        The Deserialize function   CarCollection cars   null  string path    cars xml    XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection     StreamReader reader   new StreamReader path   cars    CarCollection serializer Deserialize reader   reader Close      And the slightly tweaked xml  I needed to add a new element to wrap  lt Cars gt    Net is picky about deserializing arrays     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt CarCollection gt   lt Cars gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1020 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Nissan lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Sentra lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1010 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Toyota lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Corolla lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1111 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Honda lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Accord lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt   lt  Cars gt   lt  CarCollection gt

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If you re getting errors using xsd exe to create your xsd file  then use the XmlSchemaInference class  as mentioned on msdn   Here s a unit test to demonstrate   using System Xml  using System Xml Schema    TestMethod  public void GenerateXsdFromXmlTest         string folder     C  mydir mydata xmlToCSharp       XmlReader reader   XmlReader Create folder     some xml xml        XmlSchemaSet schemaSet   new XmlSchemaSet        XmlSchemaInference schema   new XmlSchemaInference         schemaSet   schema InferSchema reader         foreach  XmlSchema s in schemaSet Schemas                  XmlWriter xsdFile   new XmlTextWriter folder     some xsd xsd   System Text Encoding UTF8           s Write xsdFile           xsdFile Close                now from the visual studio command line type  xsd some xsd xsd  classes

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How about you just save the xml to a file  and use xsd to generate C  classes    Write the file to disk  I named it foo xml  Generate the xsd  xsd foo xml Generate the C   xsd foo xsd  classes   Et voila - and C  code file that should be able to read the data via XmlSerializer       XmlSerializer ser   new XmlSerializer typeof Cars        Cars cars      using  XmlReader reader   XmlReader Create path                 cars    Cars  ser Deserialize reader            include the generated foo cs in the project

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async public static Task lt JObject gt  XMLtoNETAsync XmlDocument ToConvert          Van XML naar JSON     string jsonText   await Task Run      gt  JsonConvert SerializeXmlNode ToConvert           Van JSON naar  net object     var o   await Task Run      gt  JObject Parse jsonText         return o

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How about a generic class to deserialize an XML document                                                                                      Generic class to load any xml into a class    used like this        YourClassTypeHere InfoList   LoadXMLFileIntoClass lt YourClassTypeHere gt  xmlFile    using System IO  using System Xml Serialization   public static T LoadXMLFileIntoClass lt T gt  string xmlFile        T returnThis      XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof T        if   FileAndIO FileExists xmlFile                 Console WriteLine  FileDoesNotExistError  0    xmlFile             returnThis    T serializer Deserialize new StreamReader xmlFile        return  T returnThis      This part may  or may not be necessary  Open the XML document in Visual Studio  right click on the XML  choose properties  Then choose your schema file

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The following snippet should do the trick  and you can ignore most of the serialization attributes    public class Car     public string StockNumber   get  set      public string Make   get  set      public string Model   get  set        XmlRootAttribute  Cars    public class CarCollection      XmlElement  Car      public Car   Cars   get  set             using  TextReader reader   new StreamReader path       XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection      return  CarCollection  serializer Deserialize reader

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Here s a working version   I changed the XmlElementAttribute labels to XmlElement because in the xml the StockNumber  Make and Model values are elements  not attributes   Also I removed the reader ReadToEnd     that function reads the whole stream and returns a string  so the Deserialize   function couldn t use the reader anymore   the position was at the end of the stream    I also took a few liberties with the naming      Here are the classes    Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElement  StockNumber        public string StockNumber   get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement  Make        public string Make   get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement  Model        public string Model   get  set         Serializable     System Xml Serialization XmlRoot  CarCollection    public class CarCollection        XmlArray  Cars         XmlArrayItem  Car   typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set        The Deserialize function   CarCollection cars   null  string path    cars xml    XmlSerializer serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof CarCollection     StreamReader reader   new StreamReader path   cars    CarCollection serializer Deserialize reader   reader Close      And the slightly tweaked xml  I needed to add a new element to wrap  lt Cars gt    Net is picky about deserializing arrays     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt CarCollection gt   lt Cars gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1020 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Nissan lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Sentra lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1010 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Toyota lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Corolla lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt     lt Car gt       lt StockNumber gt 1111 lt  StockNumber gt       lt Make gt Honda lt  Make gt       lt Model gt Accord lt  Model gt     lt  Car gt   lt  Cars gt   lt  CarCollection gt

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try this block of code if your  xml file has been generated somewhere in disk and if you have used List lt T gt      deserialization  XmlSerializer xmlser   new XmlSerializer typeof List lt Item gt     StreamReader srdr   new StreamReader   C  serialize xml    List lt Item gt  p    List lt Item gt  xmlser Deserialize srdr   srdr Close       Note  C  serialize xml is my  xml file s path  You can change it for your needs

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The idea is to have all level being handled for deserialization Please see  a sample solution that solved my similar issue  lt  xml version  quot 1 0 quot    gt     lt TRANSACTION RESPONSE gt       lt TRANSACTION gt           lt TRANSACTION ID gt 25429 lt  TRANSACTION ID gt            lt MERCHANT ACC NO gt 02700701354375000964 lt  MERCHANT ACC NO gt            lt TXN STATUS gt F lt  TXN STATUS gt            lt TXN SIGNATURE gt a16af68d4c3e2280e44bd7c2c23f2af6cb1f0e5a28c266ea741608e72b1a5e4224da5b975909cc43c53b6c0f7f1bbf0820269caa3e350dd1812484edc499b279 lt  TXN SIGNATURE gt            lt TXN SIGNATURE2 gt B1684258EA112C8B5BA51F73CDA9864D1BB98E04F5A78B67A3E539BEF96CCF4D16CFF6B9E04818B50E855E0783BB075309D112CA596BDC49F9738C4BF3AA1FB4 lt  TXN SIGNATURE2 gt            lt TRAN DATE gt 29-09-2015 07 36 59 lt  TRAN DATE gt            lt MERCHANT TRANID gt 150929093703RUDZMX4 lt  MERCHANT TRANID gt            lt RESPONSE CODE gt 9967 lt  RESPONSE CODE gt            lt RESPONSE DESC gt Bank rejected transaction  lt  RESPONSE DESC gt            lt CUSTOMER ID gt RUDZMX lt  CUSTOMER ID gt            lt AUTH ID   gt            lt AUTH DATE   gt            lt CAPTURE DATE   gt            lt SALES DATE   gt            lt VOID REV DATE   gt            lt REFUND DATE   gt            lt REFUND AMOUNT gt 0 00 lt  REFUND AMOUNT gt        lt  TRANSACTION gt     lt  TRANSACTION RESPONSE gt    The above XML is handled in  two level    XmlType  quot TRANSACTION RESPONSE quot    public class TransactionResponse        XmlElement  quot TRANSACTION quot        public BankQueryResponse Response   get  set        The Inner level public class BankQueryResponse        XmlElement  quot TRANSACTION ID quot        public string TransactionId   get  set          XmlElement  quot MERCHANT ACC NO quot        public string MerchantAccNo   get  set          XmlElement  quot TXN SIGNATURE quot        public string TxnSignature   get  set          XmlElement  quot TRAN DATE quot        public DateTime TranDate   get  set          XmlElement  quot TXN STATUS quot        public string TxnStatus   get  set           XmlElement  quot REFUND DATE quot        public DateTime RefundDate   get  set          XmlElement  quot RESPONSE CODE quot        public string ResponseCode   get  set           XmlElement  quot RESPONSE DESC quot        public string ResponseDesc   get  set          XmlAttribute  quot MERCHANT TRANID quot        public string MerchantTranId   get  set        Same Way you need multiple level with car as array Check this example for multilevel  deserialization

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See if this helps    Serializable     System Xml Serialization XmlRootAttribute  Cars   Namespace       IsNullable   false   public class Cars        XmlArrayItem typeof Car        public Car   Car   get  set            Serializable    public class Car        System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string StockNumber  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string Make  get  set          System Xml Serialization XmlElement        public string Model  get  set        And failing that use the xsd exe program that comes with visual studio to create a schema document based on that xml file  and then use it again to create a class based on the schema document

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My solution    Use Edit  gt  Past Special  gt  Paste XML As Classes to get the class in your code Try something like this  create a list of that class  List lt class1    then use the XmlSerializer to serialize that list to a xml file  Now you just replace the body of that file with your data and try to deserialize it    Code    StreamReader sr   new StreamReader   C  Users duongngh Desktop Newfolder abc txt    XmlSerializer xml   new XmlSerializer typeof Class1      var a   xml Deserialize sr   sr Close      NOTE  you must pay attention to the root name  don t change it  Mine is  ArrayOfClass1

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