XML Serialisation

fullingdale · December 18th, 2008, 11:28 AM

A colleague of mine is telling me that you cannot serialise the following XML (example) to return a collection of the ORDER nodes.

Code:

 
<MY_ORDERS>
  <HEADER>
    <HEADER_DETAILS note="various details in childnodes" />
  </HEADER>
  <ORDER>
    <ORDER_DETAILS note="contains various details in childnodes" />
  </ORDER>
  <ORDER>
    <ORDER_DETAILS note="contains various details in childnodes" />
  </ORDER>
</MY_ORDERS>

And that he must add a parent to the ORDER, such as:

Code:

 
<MY_ORDERS>
  <HEADER>
    <HEADER_DETAILS note="various details in childnodes" />
  </HEADER>
  <ORDERS>
    <ORDER>
      <ORDER_DETAILS note="contains various details in childnodes" />
    </ORDER>
    <ORDER>
      <ORDER_DETAILS note="contains various details in childnodes" />
    </ORDER>
  </ORDERS>
</MY_ORDERS>

Please tell me that this is not true ... surely .NET is clevel enough to be able to pick out a chilNode set from the first example, based on "//MY_ORDERS/ORDER" as we would used in a selectNodes from MSXML.