How to retain XML string as a string field during XML deserialization
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I got an XML input string and want to deserialize it to an object which partially retain the raw XML.
<SetProfile>
<sessionId>A81D83BC-09A0-4E32-B440-0000033D7AAD</sessionId>
<profileDataXml>
<ArrayOfProfileItem>
<ProfileItem>
<Name>Pulse</Name>
<Value>80</Value>
</ProfileItem>
<ProfileItem>
<Name>BloodPresure</Name>
<Value>120</Value>
</ProfileItem>
</ArrayOfProfileItem>
</profileDataXml>
</SetProfile>
The class definition:
public class SetProfile
{
public Guid sessionId;
public string profileDataXml;
}
I hope the deserialization syntax looks like
string inputXML = "..."; // the above XML
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SetProfile));
using (TextReader reader = new StringReader(inputXML))
{
SetProfile obj = (SetProfile)xs.Deserialize(reader);
// use obj ....
}
but XMLSerializer will throw an exception and won't output < profileDataXml 's descendants to "profileDataXml" field in raw XML string.
Is there any way to implement the deserialization like that?
