What is the easiest way to convert this XML document to my object?

Question

I have an XMLDocument that i need to read in and convert into a set of objects. I have the following objects

public class Location
{
      public string Nam         


        

Answer 1

You could start by fixing your XML because in the example you have shown you have unclosed tags. You might also wrap the tags into a collection in order to be able to have other properties in this Location class other than buildings.

  
    
      
        
          
            
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Once you have fixed your XML you could adapt your models. I would recommend you using properties instead of fields in your classes:

public class Location
{
    [XmlAttribute("name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    public List Buildings { get; set; }
}

public class Building
{
    [XmlAttribute("name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public List Rooms { get; set; }
}

public class Room
{
    [XmlAttribute("name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Capacity { get; set; }
}

[XmlRoot("info")]
public class Info
{
    [XmlArray("locations")]
    [XmlArrayItem("location")]
    public List Locations { get; set; }
}

and now all that's left is deserialize the XML:

var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Info));
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create("locations.xml"))
{
    Info info = (Info)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
    List locations = info.Locations;
    // do whatever you wanted to do with those locations
}