Deserialization Error: The XML element 'name' from namespace '' is already present in the current scope

Question

This is my first time using XML Serialization and this is driving me absolutely nuts after 2 days of trying to troubleshoot this.

I get this error w

Answer 1

Yes - album is definitely not the root node in your XML.

What I would recommend you do is create a GetAlbumsResponse class which contains a list of albums, and move your deserialize code to the wrapper class.

Basically, remove the root element from your Album class definition, and :

  [XmlRoot (ElementName="GetAlbums_response")]
public class GetAlbumsResponse
{
    #region Constructors

    public GetAlbumsResponse()
    {

    }

    #endregion



    [XmlArray(ElementName="album")]
    public List Albums{get;set;}

    ... deserialization code...

}