XML Parsing with C# from a service - c#

I am having a bad time trying to consume an XML service.
This is my code to consume the service (it is a public service so you can consume it):
using( var client = new HttpClient() )
{
client.DefaultRequestHeaders
.Accept
.Add( new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue( "text/xml" ) );
var request = new HttpRequestMessage( HttpMethod.Get, "https://gee.bccr.fi.cr/Indicadores/Suscripciones/WS/wsindicadoreseconomicos.asmx/ObtenerIndicadoresEconomicosXML?Indicador=317&FechaInicio=20%2F04%2F2022&FechaFinal=20%2F04%2F2022&Nombre=Jos%C3%A9+Miguel+Torres+G%C3%B3mez&SubNiveles=N&CorreoElectronico=josetorres%40outlook.com&Token=2LOEU2EM8O" );
var returnedXml = client.SendAsync( request ).Result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
Console.WriteLine( returnedXml );
}
The response I get from there is the following, adding the console screenshot due to it returns special scape chars:
<string xmlns="http://ws.sdde.bccr.fi.cr">
<Datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC>
<INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC>
<COD_INDICADORINTERNO>317</COD_INDICADORINTERNO>
<DES_FECHA>2022-04-20T00:00:00-06:00</DES_FECHA>
<NUM_VALOR>650.10000000</NUM_VALOR>
</INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC>
</Datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC>
</string>
This is the class I use to try to deserialize:
public class Datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC
{
public INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC { get; set; }
}
public class INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC
{
public int COD_INDICADORINTERNO { get; set; }
public DateTime DES_FECHA { get; set; }
public double NUM_VALOR { get; set; }
}
But when I try to Deserialize the string I get the error: There is an error in XML document. Data at the root level is invalid. And due to I don't use to work with XML data I am stocked here.


The problem is that the "outer" XML is a wrapper for the "inner" one, which is encoded as text node for the first. In other words, that's NOT a single document, rather two different documents nested.
My guess is about the outer one, which looks like a descriptor for what itself contains.
That being said, you can extract what you need in a two-step job:
using System;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;
using( var client = new HttpClient() )
{
client.DefaultRequestHeaders
.Accept
.Add( new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue( "text/xml" ) );
var request = new HttpRequestMessage( HttpMethod.Get, " ... " );
var returnedXml = client.SendAsync( request ).Result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
Console.WriteLine( returnedXml );
//create a XML DOM from the returned payload
XDocument xdoc_outer = XDocument.Parse(returnedXml );
//extract the inner document as text (being a true-text node)
string inner_text = (string)xdoc_outer.Root;
//deserialize the text straight to a POCO shaped accordingly
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC));
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(inner_text)))
{
//'result' contains the deserialized POCO, unless something went wrong!
var result = (Datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
}
Probably there are better yet compact ways to achieve the same result, but I think that's pretty clear.
As final note, I reccomend to use async/await than accessing the data through the Result property.


Looks like the problem you are having is because of the outer element you have in your xml (string)
You can use one of the ways mentioned here (https://stackoverflow.com/a/19613934/3377344) in this post to create your class.
I used the paste special method shown there and here is the class I was able to generate:
// NOTE: Generated code may require at least .NET Framework 4.5 or .NET Core/Standard 2.0.
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "http://ws.sdde.bccr.fi.cr")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "http://ws.sdde.bccr.fi.cr", IsNullable = false)]
public partial class #string
{
private stringDatos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICField;
/// <remarks/>
public stringDatos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC Datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC
{
get
{
return this.datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICField;
}
set
{
this.datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICField = value;
}
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "http://ws.sdde.bccr.fi.cr")]
public partial class stringDatos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC
{
private stringDatos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICINGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC iNGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICField;
/// <remarks/>
public stringDatos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICINGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC
{
get
{
return this.iNGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICField;
}
set
{
this.iNGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICField = value;
}
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "http://ws.sdde.bccr.fi.cr")]
public partial class stringDatos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMICINGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC
{
private ushort cOD_INDICADORINTERNOField;
private System.DateTime dES_FECHAField;
private decimal nUM_VALORField;
/// <remarks/>
public ushort COD_INDICADORINTERNO
{
get
{
return this.cOD_INDICADORINTERNOField;
}
set
{
this.cOD_INDICADORINTERNOField = value;
}
}
/// <remarks/>
public System.DateTime DES_FECHA
{
get
{
return this.dES_FECHAField;
}
set
{
this.dES_FECHAField = value;
}
}
/// <remarks/>
public decimal NUM_VALOR
{
get
{
return this.nUM_VALORField;
}
set
{
this.nUM_VALORField = value;
}
}
}
Once you have that class ready, you should be able to get the deserialize to work.
I used something like this:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string myxml = $#"
<string xmlns = ""http://ws.sdde.bccr.fi.cr"">
<Datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC>
<INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC>
<COD_INDICADORINTERNO>317</COD_INDICADORINTERNO>
<DES_FECHA>2022-04-20T00:00:00-06:00</DES_FECHA>
<NUM_VALOR>650.10000000</NUM_VALOR>
</INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC>
</Datos_de_INGC011_CAT_INDICADORECONOMIC>
</string>
";
var res = XMLToObject(myxml, typeof(#string));
}
public static object XMLToObject(string xml, Type type, string xmlnamespace = "http://ws.sdde.bccr.fi.cr")
{
object result = null;
using (var stream = new StringReader(xml))
{
using(var reader = new XmlTextReader(stream))
{
var xmlRootAttr = new XmlRootAttribute();
xmlRootAttr.Namespace = xmlnamespace;
xmlRootAttr.ElementName = type.Name;
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(type, xmlRootAttr);
result = serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
}
return result;
}
}

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Quick test shows XmlSerializer can handle this pretty easily
Test class:
[XmlRoot]
public class Test
{
[XmlElement(ElementName="Foo.Alpha")]
public string Alpha {get;set;}
[XmlElement(ElementName="Foo.Beta")]
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I have pasted your XML in an XMLFile1.xml and pasted it in Visual Studio to generate classes, so this will be a lot of autogenerated code... warning
could not fit auto gen code...
Body is limited to 30000 characters; you entered 93977
Full code here:
https://pastebin.com/VxzNUjsv
Smaller version:
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and C# code:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (var sreader = new StringReader(File.ReadAllText(#"C:\Users\JP\source\repos\soXmlParsing\soXmlParsing\XMLFile1.xml")))
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(sreader))
{
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(customer));
var test = (customer)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
Console.WriteLine(test.PARENTNAME);
Console.WriteLine(test.DISPLAYCONTACTCONTACTNAME);
}
}
}
// NOTE: Generated code may require at least .NET Framework 4.5 or .NET Core/Standard 2.0.
/// <remarks/>
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true)]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "", IsNullable = false)]
public partial class customer
{
private byte rECORDNOField;
private string cUSTOMERIDField;
private string pARENTNAMEField;
private string dISPLAYCONTACTCONTACTNAMEField;
private string dISPLAYCONTACTCOMPANYNAMEField;
/// <remarks/>
public byte RECORDNO
{
get
{
return this.rECORDNOField;
}
set
{
this.rECORDNOField = value;
}
}
/// <remarks/>
public string CUSTOMERID
{
get
{
return this.cUSTOMERIDField;
}
set
{
this.cUSTOMERIDField = value;
}
}
/// <remarks/>
public string PARENTNAME
{
get
{
return this.pARENTNAMEField;
}
set
{
this.pARENTNAMEField = value;
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("DISPLAYCONTACT.CONTACTNAME")]
public string DISPLAYCONTACTCONTACTNAME
{
get
{
return this.dISPLAYCONTACTCONTACTNAMEField;
}
set
{
this.dISPLAYCONTACTCONTACTNAMEField = value;
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("DISPLAYCONTACT.COMPANYNAME")]
public string DISPLAYCONTACTCOMPANYNAME
{
get
{
return this.dISPLAYCONTACTCOMPANYNAMEField;
}
set
{
this.dISPLAYCONTACTCOMPANYNAMEField = value;
}
}
}

How to read in all the data with a certain tag in an XML file using c#?

I am creating a Windows service for checking the integrity of software being installed on a system by creating an MD5 hash for the software being installed and comparing it with the MD5 hashes of verified software. The verified hashes are contained in an XML file that looks like this:
<AppList>
<VLC>
<Path>C:Program Files\VLC\VLC.exe</Path>
<MD5GoldenHash> 1f74882b7a5c8a6ca38912df9786c1cc</MD5GoldenHash>
</VLC>
…
</AppList>
How do I read in all the data with the MD5GoldenHash tag in c# so that I can compare the MD5 hash of the software being installed with the already verified hashes? Any help or tips would be much appreciated.

Use my answer here to create a C# class that represent your XML.
Use the XmlSerializer to deserialize the contents of the XML file.
Do whatever you want to do with the deserialized stuff.
Here are the classes step 1 will generate for you:
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true)]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "", IsNullable = false)]
public partial class AppList
{
private AppListVLC[] vLCField;
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("VLC")]
public AppListVLC[] VLC
{
get
{
return this.vLCField;
}
set
{
this.vLCField = value;
}
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true)]
public partial class AppListVLC
{
private string pathField;
private string mD5GoldenHashField;
/// <remarks/>
public string Path
{
get
{
return this.pathField;
}
set
{
this.pathField = value;
}
}
/// <remarks/>
public string MD5GoldenHash
{
get
{
return this.mD5GoldenHashField;
}
set
{
this.mD5GoldenHashField = value;
}
}
}
And here is how to serialize and deserialize:
public static void Main()
{
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AppList));
var reader = new StreamReader("YourFile.xml");
var result = serializer.Deserialize(reader) as AppList;
reader.Close();
foreach (var thisVlc in result.VLC)
{
Console.WriteLine(thisVlc.MD5GoldenHash);
}
// if you want to make changes to xml file then do the following
result.VLC[0].MD5GoldenHash = "Something to show modificaition";
serializer.Serialize(new StreamWriter("YourFileOrSomeOtherFile.xml"), result);
}

I figured out I could read in the data for the specific tag and put it in a list like this:
private List<string> getGoldenHashes(string xml)
{
List<string> list = new List<string>();
int i = 0;
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(xml);
var goldHashes = doc.Descendants("MD5GoldenHash");
foreach (var gh in goldHashes)
{
list.Add(gh.Value.ToString());
}
return list;
}

XML deserialization in C# returns an empty object

I have a problem here about deserialization. I have a XML file that I need to deserialize into a class that I get from a Service reference. I know how to deserialize a XML file, but when I try to deserialize this file I get a empty class object. I don't understand why is it doing that.
The XML files content looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><iVAZFile xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">
<FileDescription>
<FileVersion>i1.3.3</FileVersion>
<FileDateCreated>2016-11-07T12:28:32</FileDateCreated>
<SoftwareCompanyName>otechnika"</SoftwareCompanyName>
<SoftwareName>Eita</SoftwareName>
<SoftwareVersion>2016.9</SoftwareVersion>
<CreatorRegistrationNumber>123060356</CreatorRegistrationNumber>
</FileDescription>
</iVAZFile>
The class looks like this:
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.Xml", "4.6.1590.0")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv")]
public partial class FileDescription : object, System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged {
private string fileVersionField;
private System.DateTime fileDateCreatedField;
private string softwareCompanyNameField;
private string softwareNameField;
private string softwareVersionField;
private ulong creatorRegistrationNumberField;
public FileDescription() {
this.fileVersionField = "iVAZ1.3.3";
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Order=0)]
public string FileVersion {
get {
return this.fileVersionField;
}
set {
this.fileVersionField = value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("FileVersion");
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Order=1)]
public System.DateTime FileDateCreated {
get {
return this.fileDateCreatedField;
}
set {
this.fileDateCreatedField = value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("FileDateCreated");
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Order=2)]
public string SoftwareCompanyName {
get {
return this.softwareCompanyNameField;
}
set {
this.softwareCompanyNameField = value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("SoftwareCompanyName");
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Order=3)]
public string SoftwareName {
get {
return this.softwareNameField;
}
set {
this.softwareNameField = value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("SoftwareName");
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Order=4)]
public string SoftwareVersion {
get {
return this.softwareVersionField;
}
set {
this.softwareVersionField = value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("SoftwareVersion");
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Order=5)]
public ulong CreatorRegistrationNumber {
get {
return this.creatorRegistrationNumberField;
}
set {
this.creatorRegistrationNumberField = value;
this.RaisePropertyChanged("CreatorRegistrationNumber");
}
}
public event System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
protected void RaisePropertyChanged(string propertyName) {
System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventHandler propertyChanged = this.PropertyChanged;
if ((propertyChanged != null)) {
propertyChanged(this, new System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
}
}
}
And the method that I use to populate the class:
using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
using (BinaryWriter binWriter = new BinaryWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8))
{
string filep = File.ReadAllText("test.xml");
binWriter.Write(filep);
memoryStream.Seek(2, SeekOrigin.Begin);
using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(memoryStream))
{
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(streamReader))
{
XmlRootAttribute xRoot = new XmlRootAttribute();
xRoot.ElementName = "FileDescription";
xRoot.IsNullable = false;
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(FileDescription),xRoot);
FileDescription dsc = new FileDescription();
dsc=(FileDescription)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
}
}
}
A few additional comment to say what I also tried:
I made my own class that looked the same as the one from the service reference and added a new parameter [XmlRoot(ElementName="FileDescription"),XmlType("FileDescription")]
then the deserilization worked on my class.
Tried adding values by hand without deserilization that worked fine as well so there's no problem with the service code.
Also when I'm deserializing the xml I remove <iVAZFile xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv"> and </iVAZFIle> because when deserializing it will throw and exception was not expecting .
And lastly a few words I cannot change the service reference class and I need to use that class for later so I cannot make my own.

The difference is the namespace - per the XmlType attribute on your FileDescription class, the namespace is http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv. This applies to all child elements of the FileDescription. The root namespace is whatever you configure via your XmlRootAttribute or by the constructor that takes a default namespace.
As I suggested, the easiest way to debug this sort of issue is to do the reverse - serialise an object and see what it looks like. As you can see in this fiddle the output at present would look like this. This is why you're not getting any error (as the root class matches), but all the child elements in the XML you're deserialising are in the wrong namespace.
<FileDescription>
<FileVersion xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">iVAZ1.3.3</FileVersion>
<FileDateCreated xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">0001-01-01T00:00:00</FileDateCreated>
<CreatorRegistrationNumber xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">0</CreatorRegistrationNumber>
</FileDescription>
If you specify the same namespace for the root as in this fiddle, the output looks like this:
<FileDescription xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">
<FileVersion>iVAZ1.3.3</FileVersion>
<FileDateCreated>0001-01-01T00:00:00</FileDateCreated>
<CreatorRegistrationNumber>0</CreatorRegistrationNumber>
</FileDescription>
You need to keep the namespace in your amended document. You can see this works in this fiddle.

(Posted on behalf of the OP).
The problem is solved thanks to Charles Mager. The problem was I had to add the namespace to every value in my XML so it would have to look like this:
<FileDescription>
<FileVersion xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">i1.3.3</FileVersion>
<FileDateCreated xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">2016-11-07T12:28:32</FileDateCreated>
<SoftwareCompanyName xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">otechnika"</SoftwareCompanyName>
<SoftwareName xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">Eita</SoftwareName>
<SoftwareVersion xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">2016.9</SoftwareVersion>
<CreatorRegistrationNumber xmlns="http://www.v.lt/c/i/iv">123060356</CreatorRegistrationNumber>
</FileDescription>
Now it works fine, thanks for the help.

Get attribute values to the XML-File

I got a issue with XML, and write some information on a XML-file.
I got several xsd-files describing my XML. I created one big .cs-file with "xsd/c testfile1.xsd testFile2.xsd..." etc. And everything went nice and looks good.
But if I take one created class i.e. testfile1.xsd, it looks like
"<xs:complexType name="Header">" and inside that one there is this some ordinary xs:element and stuff, but also this: "<xs:attribute name="version" default="1.0.0.0"/>". This is translated to:
"public Header() {
this.versionField = "1.0.0.0";}"
in the generated class 'Header'. And it got as well this field: private string versionField;
. (There is of course a couple of other private fields as well, but those works good.). So I create instances of all classes, fill them with data and write it as an XML-file with this:
- XmlSerializer XmlSerRoot = new XmlSerializer(typeof(RootInformation))
(the root of my xml!)
- StringWriterWithEncoding strWriter = new StringWriterWithEncoding(Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"));
- XmlDocument documentInXML = new XmlDocument();
- XmlSerRoot.Serialize(strWriter, rootInformation); (Here is the XML, filled with values, and the Header.version got the value 1.0.0.0)
- string XmlString;
- XmlString = strWriter.ToString(); (Here I can look at the created xml when debugging in VS and now the version-information is gone)
- documentInXML.LoadXml(XmlString);
- documentInXML.Save(myPath);
But when I look at the xml-file this <Header> is not have anything like version. I want i to look like: <Header version="1.0.0.0">
I even tried to do it in code like:
Header header = new Header();
header.version = header.version;
and
with header.version = "1.0.0.0";
But still it's no version-text in the tag. All other tags got their value. Just this <Header> loose this extra information.
Does someone got a tip? There is a lot of places I need this to work. Everything else is just working fine.
Regards, /E
Here is an piece of example-code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
namespace TestAppXML
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
RootInfo rootInfo = new RootInfo();
rootInfo.RootText = "This is the Root!";
Header header = new Header();
header.TestHeader = "This is HeaderText!";
rootInfo.Header = header;
XmlSerializer XmlSerRoot = new XmlSerializer(typeof(RootInfo));
StringWriterWithEncoding strWriter = new StringWriterWithEncoding(Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"));
XmlDocument documentInXML = new XmlDocument();
XmlSerRoot.Serialize(strWriter, rootInfo);
string XmlString;
XmlString = strWriter.ToString();
documentInXML.LoadXml(XmlString);
strWriter.Close();
documentInXML.Save(#"C:\TestXml.xml");
}
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.0.30319.1")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "http://acme.com")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "http://acme.com", IsNullable = false)]
public partial class RootInfo
{
private Header headerField;
private string rootTextField;
public Header Header
{
get { return this.headerField; }
set { this.headerField = value; }
}
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(DataType = "normalizedString")]
public string RootText
{
get { return this.rootTextField; }
set { this.rootTextField = value; }
}
}
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.0.30319.1")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace = "http://acme.com")]
public partial class Header
{
private string testHeaderField;
private string versionField;
public Header()
{
this.versionField = "1.0.0.0";
}
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(DataType = "normalizedString")]
public string TestHeader
{
get { return this.testHeaderField; }
set { this.testHeaderField = value; }
}
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DefaultValueAttribute("1.0.0.0")]
public string version
{
get { return this.versionField; }
set { this.versionField = value; }
}
}
class StringWriterWithEncoding : StringWriter
{
private Encoding MyEncoding;
public StringWriterWithEncoding(Encoding encoding)
: base()
{MyEncoding = encoding;}
public override Encoding Encoding
{
get{return MyEncoding;}
}
}
}

Nevermind, I think I knov the issue. It's because this xsd.exe creates 'DefaultValueAttribute' for those fields. That prevent this field to be in the xml. Maybe some xsd-switch could have done that, I dunno...

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