Re: HOWTO Overcome missing namespace declaration in root node

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From: Christoph Schittko [MVP] (christophdotnetINVALID_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:44:50 -0500

David,

Can you post:

* The serialization class
* the tag of the root element, including all namespace definitions
* the line of code where you instantiate the XmlSerializer 

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Christoph Schittko [MVP]
Software Architect, .NET Mentor
"David B. Bitton" <david@codenoevil.com> wrote in message
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> I am having a problem deserializing XML when the root node is missing a
> namespace declaration.  My Type has an XmlTypeAttribute with a namespace
> defined.  If I attempt to deserialize the XML, I get the dreaded
>
> <elementname xmlns=''> was not expected
>
> exception.  If I comment out the XmlTypeAttribute, it works just fine.
Just
> so you know, when I instantiate an instance of an XmlSerializer, I pass a
> default namespace to the ctor.  Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work.
>
> So, how can I get the XmlSerializer to accept XML that is missing
namespace
> declarations?
>
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