将具有相同名称的不同xml元素反序列化为不同的C＃类

Question

I have some XML which contains two general elements, each containing different information. For example:

<overview>
    <general> <!-- General 01 -->
        <datetime></datetime>
        <location></location>
    </general>
    <instance>
        <general> <!-- General 02 -->
            <instanceid></instanceid>
            <instancetype></instancetype>
        </general>
    </instance>
    <instance>
        ....
    </instance>
</overview>

After running this XML through Xml2CSharp.com , the information in both different general elements are combined into one class, for example:

[XmlRoot(ElementName="general")]
public class General {
    [XmlElement(ElementName="datetime")]
    public string Datetime { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName="location")]
    public string Location { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName="instanceid")]
    public string Instanceid { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName="instancetype")]
    public string Instancetype { get; set; }
}

Is it possible to create two different classes for these general elements (since they each contain different information), and specify which should be used? For example:

[XmlRoot(ElementName="overview/general")]
public class OverviewGeneral {
    [XmlElement(ElementName="datetime")]
    public string Datetime { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName="location")]
    public string Location { get; set; }
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName="instance/general")]
public class InstanceGeneral {
    [XmlElement(ElementName="instanceid")]
    public string Instanceid { get; set; }
    [XmlElement(ElementName="instancetype")]
    public string Instancetype { get; set; }
}

Answer 1

You are closed to achieve your result, you need to assign proper class type to each property like

[XmlRoot(ElementName = "instance")]
public class Instance
{
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "general")]
    public InstanceGeneral General { get; set; }  //<= InstanceGeneral  Use Here
}

[XmlRoot(ElementName = "overview")]
public class Overview
{
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "general")]
    public OverviewGeneral General { get; set; }  //<= OverviewGeneral Use Here
    [XmlElement(ElementName = "instance")]
    public Instance Instance { get; set; }
}