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How do we read an attribute of an XML array element? The below code I use to read an attribute of an XML array element which is not working. please let me know an alternate solution to read if avaliable or what i was missing. I saw a lot of samples but unable to identify what i was missing.

Source xml to read is 

 <RootElement>
  <devices AttNAme="attValue">
   <device>
     <sometag/>
   <device>
   <device>
      <sometag/>
    <device>
 </devices>
<RootElement>

The Code i use is

[XmlRoot("RootElement")]
public class RootElement
{
[XmlArrayItem("DeviceType", typeof(DeviceTypeSection))]
    [XmlArray("devices")]
    public DeviceTypesSection DeviceTypesInfo { get; set; }

 }

[XmlType("DeviceTypes")]
public class DeviceTypesSection : List<DeviceTypeSection>
{
    [XmlAttribute("AttNAme")]
    public string AttNAme{ get; set; }
}

..and so on

Thanks,

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  • How about matching up "DeviceType" and "DeviceTypes" ? Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 11:46
  • @HenkHolterman : Thanks , but I did not understand the logic you said. Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 11:53
  • I cannot make them same because i use 'devices' tab attribute to save all devices level info and and for each device info i have separate set of info to save with more sub tags. But is there any clue what i am possibly missing here? Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 12:07
  • Temp fix: Currently resolved this issue using LINQ to XML to directly find those array nodes and reading the attributes of that nodes. Permamnent fix : welcome. (looking how i can read attributes of arrylist node directly when deserialzing the document at once). Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 4:53
  • OK, "make them same" was too simple. But you need full info for mapping types to tags, not clear from your question. Commented Nov 1, 2012 at 8:58
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