Automatically created C# classes for xml deserialization don't work

I tried a lot of thing and finaly figured it out. Xml you posted is invalid because xsi:type doesn't work in deserialization.

Valid XML should look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:stn="urn:response">    <SOAP-ENV:Body>        <Response>            <Records>                <item>                    <person >John Johnos</person>                    <address >Some Street 1</address>                    <age >24</age>                </item>            </Records>            <status>                <item>                    <status >success</status>                    <message/>                </item>            </status>        </Response>    </SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Code then should look like:

XDocument xml = XDocument.Parse(xmlInput);XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Response));using (StringReader stream = new StringReader(items[0].ToString())){    var output = (Response)serializer.Deserialize(stream);}

Autogenerate class will be from:

<Response>  <Records  xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">    <item>      <person>John Johnos</person>      <address >Some Street 1</address>      <age>24</age>    </item>  </Records>  <status xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">    <item >      <status >success</status>      <message />    </item>  </status></Response>

Hope this is clear enough. Not sure how to get rid of types from Envelope so, this is probably not the solution you want.

Method i use for getting things from Envelope is XDocument.Descendants(elemmentName) which return array or List of elements of that name and then you can fill objects. Its more work, but i think its better than transforming xml for deserialization.

Why not generate a serialization library for the entire schema?

1. Download the XSD schema file from the URL in the message and save it somewhere

   http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/

2. Open a Visual Studio Command Prompt and enter the following command

   xsd /classes SoapEncoding.xsd

3. The output will be a file titled SoapEncoding.cs.

4. Import this file into your project and try to deserialize the message again.

If all goes well, everything should work this time around.