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Serializing WITHOUT xmlns

Asked 2010-06-22T15:10:17.537
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I have a couple extension methods that handle serialization of my classes, and since it can be a time consuming process, they are created once per class, and handed out by this method.

public static XmlSerializer GetSerializerFor(Type typeOfT)
{
    if (!serializers.ContainsKey(typeOfT))
    {
        var xmlAttributes = new XmlAttributes();
        var xmlAttributeOverrides = new XmlAttributeOverrides();

        System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("XmlSerializerFactory.GetSerializerFor(typeof({0}));", typeOfT));

        xmlAttributes.Xmlns = false;
        xmlAttributeOverrides.Add(typeOfT, xmlAttributes);

        var newSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeOfT, xmlAttributeOverrides);
        serializers.Add(typeOfT, newSerializer);
    }

    return serializers[typeOfT];
}

This is called by the extension method .Serialize()

public static XElement Serialize(this object source)
{
    try
    {
        var serializer = XmlSerializerFactory.GetSerializerFor(source.GetType());
        var xdoc = new XDocument();
        using (var writer = xdoc.CreateWriter())
        {
            serializer.Serialize(writer, source, new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] { new XmlQualifiedName("", "") }));
        }

        return (xdoc.Document != null) ? xdoc.Document.Root : new XElement("Error", "Document Missing");
    }
    catch (Exception x)
    {
        return new XElement("Error", x.ToString());
    }
}

Unfortunately, when Serializing classes that are auto-generated, they have the attribute XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace="http://tempuri.org/") applied to them.

This causes the deserialization by the the non-auto-generated counterparts to fail.

I need the serializer to completely ignore and not apply the namespace, but what I have written in the first block of code doesn't seem to remove it, I still end up with xml like this

<Note>
  <ID xmlns="h
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No problem - just pass an empty string as the default namespace to the XML serializer:

XmlSerializer newSerializer = 
   new XmlSerializer(typeOfT, "");

Unfortunately, there's no easy constructor overload if you really need to define the XmlAttributeOverrides and the default namespace - so either you can skip the XmlAttributeOverrides and use that constructor I mentioned, or you need to use the one that defines all possible parameters (including XmlAttributeOverrides and default XML namespaces - and a few more).

answered 2010-06-22T15:25:54.550

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