Deserialize Xml with empty elements in C#

Question

Trying to deserialize some xml snippits from a vendor into objects. The problem is that I\'m getting an invalid format on every empy element tag. I can deserialize the obj

Answer 1

The most uniform way to clean out these nodes appears to be to add a RegEx filter to the deserializer.

    public static T Deserialize(string xml){
        XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        string cleanXml = Regex.Replace(xml, @"<[a-zA-Z].[^(><.)]+/>",
                                        new MatchEvaluator(RemoveText));
        MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream((new UTF8Encoding()).GetBytes(cleanXml));
        XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);
        return (T)xs.Deserialize(memoryStream);
    }

  static string RemoveText(Match m) { return "";}