Get rid of root element when serializing array

Question

Here\'s a code example:

public class Person
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

...

Answer 1

IMO you should use a top-level object, I.e.

[XmlRoot("whatever")]
public class Foo {
    [XmlElement("Person")]
    public List People {get;set;}        
}

Which should serialize as a "whatever" element with multiple "Person" sub-elements.