XML Serialization of List - XML Root

Question

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So I am trying to return an XML of a List with the following:

public XmlDocument GetEntityXml()
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Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you want the root of the document to always be the same, whatever the type of element in the collection ? In that case you can use XmlAttributeOverrides :

       XmlAttributeOverrides overrides = new XmlAttributeOverrides();
       XmlAttributes attr = new XmlAttributes();
       attr.XmlRoot = new XmlRootAttribute("TheRootElementName");
       overrides.Add(typeof(List), attr);
       XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List), overrides);
       List parameters = GetAll();
       serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, parameters);