How do I read nested XML in single flatten object

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<bookinfo>
  <author>
   <name>test</name>
   <contact>155335852</contact>
  </author>
 <books>
  <book>
   <title>abc</book>
   <price>152</price>
 </book>
 <book>
  <title>xyz</book>
  <price>1523</price>
  </book>
 </books>
</bookinfo>

Note: the xml is dynamic and required tags will come from pre defined tags in database.
and want to save this kind of nested xml in single table so i just want the solution for read xml in single datatable or list of objects.

What I have tried:

i have tried DataSet.ReadXml(); but it returns multiple table and due to dynamic xml i cannot join them on runtime.

Posted 14-May-18 20:32pm

abid zahid

Updated 14-May-18 20:49pm

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Dirk Bahle · Answer 1 · 2018-05-14T20:50:00

You can do this in a variety of ways in C# but you probably want to implement IXmlSerializable on each object:

public interface IXmlSerializable
{
  XmlSchema GetSchema ();
  void ReadXml ( XmlReader reader );
  void WriteXml ( XmlWriter writer );
}

...and cascade the process from root to bottom. Implementing the interface gives you a very fine grained way of controlling/debugging the process. You can either use:

- XMLSerializer or (this is the prefered and better tool)
- DataContractSerializer

The code for this is too involved to post it here. But you should look for solutions that serialize tree or multi tree (graph) structures and you should find a few samples that give you a more detailed idea on this one.