XML Deserialize and return part of the object as XML

Question

Dont know even how to search for this, but when I deserialize an xml string, I want it to return the first level of the XML:

String: <pkt><cmd>logreq</cmd><data><name>scott</name><password>abc123</password><designator>R233</designator><token>123456</token></data></pkt>

When I use this code:

    class xmlFunctions
{
    public Cmd GetCmd(string sXML)
    {
        Cmd cmd = new Cmd();
        try
        {
            var sr = new StringReader(sXML);
            var xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Cmd));
            cmd = (Cmd)xs.Deserialize(sr);
            return cmd;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {                
           Console.WriteLine("Cannot Parse Input.");
        }
        return cmd;
    }
}

and this is my Cmd object:

[XmlRoot("pkt")]
public class Cmd
{
    public string cmd { get; set; }
    public string data { get; set; }

}

I would expect that Cmd.cmd = logreq and Cmd.data = <name>scott</name><password>abc123</password><designator>R233</designator><token>123456</token>

but the data = scott.

How do I get it to return the XML part above? it seems that it wants to deserialize all the xml and not just the first level?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think you really mean Parse a XML string and return the root node. In that case this is what you're looking for How to Parse XML with XmlReader