What is the easiest way to convert this XML document to my object?

Question

I have an XMLDocument that i need to read in and convert into a set of objects. I have the following objects

public class Location
{
      public string Nam         


        

Answer 1

Just use the XML serialization attributes- for example:

public class Location
{
      [XmlAttribute("name");
      public string Name;
      public List Buildings;
}

public class Building
{
     [XmlAttribute("name");
     public string Name;
     public List Rooms;
}

Just remember - everything will be serialized as XML Elements by default - with the sames the same as the names of the objects :)

Do this to load:

using(var stream = File.OpenRead("somefile.xml"))
{
   var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List));
   var locations = (List)serializer.Deserialize(stream );
}