C# Deserializing an XML with repeating tags -

i have input xml string repeating <row> tags i'm trying deserialize object, rows except last 1 ignored. appreciated.

as example, after deserialization, object is:

object.command[0].usertable =     {oci.ocitable}         colheading: {string[3]}         colheadingfield: {string[3]}         row: {string[3]}         rowfield: {string[3]} 

this wrong, because there 1 row in object, there should 4 <row> in input xml string this:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>    <broadsoftdocument protocol="oci" xmlns="c" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema-instance">   <sessionid xmlns="">feajiofefeaij</sessionid>    <command echo="" xsi:type="usergetlistinserviceproviderresponse" xmlns="">   <usertable>       <colheading>user id</colheading>        <colheading>group id</colheading>        <colheading>name</colheading>       <row>           <col>1</col>            <col>a</col>            <col>smith</col>        </row>       <row>           <col>2</col>            <col>a</col>            <col>john</col>        </row>       <row>           <col>3</col>            <col>b</col>            <col>james</col>        </row>       <row>           <col>4</col>            <col>b</col>            <col>lisa</col>        </row>   </usertable>   </command>   </broadsoftdocument> 

the way i'm doing deserialization is:

memorystream memstream = new memorystream(encoding.utf8.getbytes(responsestring)); xmlserializer ser = new xmlserializer(typeof(ocimessage)); ocimessage response = (ocimessage)ser.deserialize(memstream); 

and c# class automatically generated xsd.exe ocitable class this:

[system.codedom.compiler.generatedcodeattribute("xsd", "4.0.30319.1")] [system.serializableattribute()] [system.diagnostics.debuggerstepthroughattribute()] [system.componentmodel.designercategoryattribute("code")] [system.xml.serialization.xmltypeattribute(namespace = "c")] public partial class ocitable {      private string[] colheadingfield;     private string[] rowfield;      [system.xml.serialization.xmlelementattribute("colheading", form = system.xml.schema.xmlschemaform.unqualified)]     public string[] colheading     {                 {             return this.colheadingfield;         }         set         {             this.colheadingfield = value;         }     }      [system.xml.serialization.xmlarrayattribute(form = system.xml.schema.xmlschemaform.unqualified)]     [system.xml.serialization.xmlarrayitemattribute("col", typeof(string), form = system.xml.schema.xmlschemaform.unqualified, isnullable = false)]     public string[] row     {                 {             return this.rowfield;         }         set         {             this.rowfield = value;         }     } } 

the main problem that, in xml, <row> , <col> elements 2d jagged array: there outer, repeating set of <row> elements containing inner, repeating set of <col> elements, each of has string value. in ocitable class have modeled 1d array of strings:

public string[] row { get; set; } 

this allows one outer <row> element. if multiple <row> elements encountered while parsing, xmlserializer overwrite earlier values later - seeing.

in order capture nested hierarchy of row , column elements, instead need like:

public string[][] row { get; set; } 

however, if do, encounter problem described in c# xml serialization remove jagged array element name, namely xmlserializer serialize 2d jagged array outer container element, so:

<row>     <col>         <string>a</string>     </col>     <col>         <string>b</string>     </col> </row> 

thus not work.

instead, need make row member simple array of intermediate classes contain 1d array of strings, so:

[system.codedom.compiler.generatedcodeattribute("xsd", "4.0.30319.1")] [system.serializableattribute()] [system.diagnostics.debuggerstepthroughattribute()] [system.componentmodel.designercategoryattribute("code")] [system.xml.serialization.xmltypeattribute(namespace = "c")] public partial class ocitable {     private string[] colheadingfield;      [system.xml.serialization.xmlelementattribute("colheading", form = system.xml.schema.xmlschemaform.unqualified)]     public string[] colheading     {                 {             return this.colheadingfield;         }         set         {             this.colheadingfield = value;         }     }      [system.xml.serialization.xmlelement(form = system.xml.schema.xmlschemaform.unqualified)]     public ocitablerow [] row { get; set; } }  public class ocitablerow {     [system.xml.serialization.xmlelementattribute("col", form = system.xml.schema.xmlschemaform.unqualified, isnullable = false)]     public string[] col { get; set; } } 

both row , col arrays marked [xmlelement] indicate should serialized repeating sequence of elements without outer container element.

with classes defined above able deserialize <usertable> element. sample fiddle.