XML into Object

Question

I'm trying to deserialize my xml this way: public static T MyMethod (this string Myxml) { XmlDocument Mydocument = new XmlDocument(); using (XmlTextReader XmlTr = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(Myxml))) { Mydocument.Load(XmlTr); } // How do I return the result ? return ??? } How do I return my result into MyObject which I created to represent the XML ? Thanks

Sharad · Answer

Let's understand this by an example. lets have an XML like this: StepList > Step > Name > Name1 Name > Desc > Desc1 Desc > Step > Step > Name > Name2 Name > Desc > Desc2 Desc > Step > StepList > your class should be like this: [ XmlRoot ( StepList )] public class StepList { [ XmlElement ( Step )] public List Step > Steps { get ; set ; } } public class Step { [ XmlElement ( Name )] public string Name { get ; set ; } [ XmlElement ( Desc )] public string Desc { get ; set ; } } Here is my testcode. string testData = @ Name1 Desc1 Name2 Desc2  ; XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer ( typeof ( StepList )); using ( TextReader reader = new StringReader ( testData )) { StepList result = ( StepList ) serializer . Deserialize ( reader ); }