在XML序列化/反序列化过程中维护父子关系

Question

Is it possible to maintain parent-child relationships when deserializing an XML file where there is a unique identifier in each the parent and child. For example, if the "Name" tag always contains a unique ID what would be the best means of maintaining the parent-child relationship in the following XML:

<Building>
    <Name>Bldg 1</Name>
    <Room>
        <Name>Room 1</Name>
        <Table>
            <Name>Table 1</Name>
        </Table>
    </Room>
</Building>

In the class there is a property to house the parent node's text value in the "Name" tag, as well as the parent name's tag. For example, the "Room" tag with name "Room 1" would have a property for the parent node's name, which is "Bldg 1" and a property for the parent node's tag, which would be "Building". I don't have control over the schema, but this is a simplified version of the format the data is in.

Answer 1

I'm not against serialization. Just showing a different method using XML Linq

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string input = 
             "<Root>" +
               "<Building>" +
                  "<Name>Bldg 1</Name>" +
                  "<Room>" +
                    "<Name>Room 1</Name>" +
                    "<Table>" +
                        "<Name>Table 1</Name>" +
                    "</Table>" +
                  "</Room>" +
                  "<Room>" +
                    "<Name>Room 2</Name>" +
                    "<Table>" +
                        "<Name>Table 1</Name>" +
                    "</Table>" +
                  "</Room>" +
               "</Building>" +
               "<Building>" +
                  "<Name>Bldg 2</Name>" +
                  "<Room>" +
                    "<Name>Room 1</Name>" +
                    "<Table>" +
                        "<Name>Table 1</Name>" +
                    "</Table>" +
                  "</Room>" +
                  "<Room>" +
                    "<Name>Room 2</Name>" +
                    "<Table>" +
                        "<Name>Table 1</Name>" +
                    "</Table>" +
                  "</Room>" +
               "</Building>" +
            "</Root>";

            XElement root = XElement.Parse(input);

            var results = root.Descendants("Building").Select(x => new
            {
                name = x.Element("Name").Value,
                rooms = x.Elements("Room").Select(y => new
                {
                    name = y.Element("Name").Value,
                    Tables = y.Elements("Table").FirstOrDefault().Element("Name").Value
                }).ToList()
            }).ToList();
        }
    }
}