Get names of all child-elements of a node in Xml-Deserialization

Question

I got the following XML-Structure:

<Root>
    <Element Attribute="attibute">
        <ElementINeedNameOf />
        <AnotherElementINeedNameOf />
    </Element>
</Root>

I am trying to read the names of the child-element of element ? Therefor I am using System.Xml.Serialization to read the other elements/attributes but I'm unable to read the names of it's child elements.

Thank you.

Answer 1

It is posible by selecting the parent element with XmlAnyElement .

The following code shows an example solution:

[XmlAnyElement("Element")]
public XmlElement Elements{ get; set; }

[XmlIgnore]
public List<string> ElementNames
{
    get
    {
        var elementNames = new List<string>();
        if (Elements != null && Elements.HasChildNodes)
        {
            elementNames.AddRange(from XmlNode elementsChildNode in Elements .ChildNodes select elementsChildNode.Name);
            return elementNames ;
        }
        else
        {
            //return empty List
            return tagNames;
        }
    }
}