How to add XmlInclude attribute dynamically

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Two options; the simplest (but giving odd xml) is:

XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AList),
    new Type[] {typeof(B), typeof(C)});

With example output:

<AList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <ListOfBs>
    <B />
    <B xsi:type="C" />
  </ListOfBs>
</AList>

The more elegant is:

XmlAttributeOverrides aor = new XmlAttributeOverrides();
XmlAttributes listAttribs = new XmlAttributes();
listAttribs.XmlElements.Add(new XmlElementAttribute("b", typeof(B)));
listAttribs.XmlElements.Add(new XmlElementAttribute("c", typeof(C)));
aor.Add(typeof(AList), "ListOfBs", listAttribs);

XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AList), aor);

With example output:

<AList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <b />
  <c />
</AList>

In either case you must cache and re-use the ser instance; otherwise you will haemorrhage memory from dynamic compilation.

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