Change XmlElement name for XML serialisation

Question

We have the followig code:

[Serializable]
public class Class1
{
    [XmlElement(\"description\")]
    public string Description { get; set; }
}
class Program         


        

Answer 1

You can use XmlTypeAttribute.TypeName for this.

Try this for you Class1 definition

    [XmlType(TypeName = "Item1")]
    [Serializable]
    public class Class1
    {
        [XmlElement("description")]
        public string Description { get; set; }
    }

Answer 2

Use an XmlTypeAttribute on the class as well:

[XmlType(TypeName="ElementName")]
[Serializable]
public class Class1 { ...

EDIT: Updated from XmlRootAttribute to XmlTypeAttribute. The former works where the type being passed to the serialiser is the attributed type (Class1 here), but not when there is a wrapping type (List<Class1> here). That XmlType works is not clear from the documentation (my emphasis):

Controls the XML schema that is generated when the attribute target is serialized by the XmlSerializer.

Credit to Bala R's answer.