Deserialize XML in C# with the same name of attribute and element - reflection error

Question

I have a document with this kind of structure:

<page name="some-name">
    <header>
        //some content
    </header>
    <section header="value">
        //some content
    </section>
</page>

When I deserialize this document to get an instance of Page class, I always get reflection error and InvalidOperationException. I figured out by debugging and a lot of try and error that the reason for this error is that i have the same name for a node (XMLElement) and a property (XMLAttribute), in this example the name is "header". XML structure is not changeable in any way, so that is not the solution. Is there a way to make it work, or do I have to add the property value later, outside of deserialization?

Classes are in this form:

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

    [XmlElement("header")]
    public Header Header { get; set }

    [XmlElement("section")]
    public Section Section { get; set }
}

[XmlType("section")]
public class Section
{
    [XmlAttribute("header")]
    public string Header { get; set }
}

[XmlType("header")]
public class Header
{
    //elements and attributes as properties
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '15 at 15:48

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use [XmlRoot("page")] to specify the name of generated xml root element instead of using [XmlType("page")]

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmlrootattribute(v=vs.110).aspx

answered Sep 09 '15 at 15:48

u7pro

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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You can try to generate classes from XML using Xsd.exe and see how it manages to solve this. Here is more info about classes generation from XML.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

Community

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answered Oct 15 '13 at 13:16

Denis Palnitsky

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Deserialize XML in C# with the same name of attribute and element - reflection error

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