Remove empty xmlns=“” after Xml Serialization

Question

So I am still asking questions about this topic :-(

So I create an object, decorate it with the Xml Serialization Attributes, from what I have seen I add an empty na

Answer 1

This works (you just need them to be in the same namespace and you use the namespaces class so the writter doesn't confuse):

[TestMethod]
public void TestMethod3()
{
    var list = new []{new SitemapNode("1", DateTime.Now, 1), new SitemapNode("2", DateTime.Now.AddDays(1), 2)};
    var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SitemapNode));
    var st = new MemoryStream();
    using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(st))
    {
        var ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
        ns.Add("", "test");
        writer.WriteStartElement("test", "test");
        foreach (SitemapNode node in list)
        {
            serializer.Serialize(writer, node, ns);
        }
        writer.WriteEndElement();
    }
    st.Position = 0;
    TestContext.WriteLine(new StreamReader(st).ReadToEnd());
}


[XmlRoot(ElementName = "url", Namespace = "test")]
public class SitemapNode
{
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "loc")]
    public string Location { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "lastmod")]
    public DateTime LastModified { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "priority")]
    public decimal Priority { get; set; }

    public SitemapNode()
    {
        Location = String.Empty;
        LastModified = DateTime.Now;
        Priority = 0.5M;
    }

    public SitemapNode(string location, DateTime lastModified, decimal priority)
    {
        Location = location;
        LastModified = lastModified;
        Priority = priority;
    }
}

And the output is (based on your comments that is what you were looking for):

    
12009-03-05T13:35:54.6468-07:001
22009-03-06T13:35:54.6478-07:002