Array Serialization

From: S (stephen_at_acsalaska.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:00:17 -0800

Hi there,
Here's a question for ya:
I'm serializing something that looks like this:
[XmlRoot(ElementName="Widget")]
Class Widget --> My base class
    [XmlArray(ElementName="TextGroups")]
    [XmlArrayItem(ElementName="TextGroup",Type=typeof(ClassTextGroup))]
    public ArrayList TextGroups --> An arraylist of collections
(TextGroup Collections)
        TextGroup --> A custom collection
(collectionbase) of Text objects
            [XmlRoot(ElementName="Text")]
            Text --> The text object

Problem is, the xml comes out like this:
<Widget>
    <TextGroups>
        <ArrayofText>
            <Text>

I would have thought my XmlArrayItem attribute on the ArrayList would have
taken care of this "Arrayof..." business, but is it running into a problem
because it's an array of, essentially, arrays? Any ideas on how I could fix
this without changing the structure of my class??

Thanks,
S

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