Tag Archives: XML

C# Ignoring Namespaces in XML when Deserializing

Posted on July 13, 2022 by briancaos

Namespaces in XML are hard to understand, I’ll admit that. But even I have learned that namespaces in XML documents matter. These elements are not the same: These 2 set of elements need to be mapped differently when deserialized in … Continue reading →

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C# Working with Namespaces in XDocument and XML

Posted on October 28, 2021 by briancaos

XDocument is your old XML friend in C#, and it allows you to create or manipulate XML documents. To work with namespaces, you must use the XNamespace class. This is an imaginary XML document (a Google Merchant Feed formatted one) … Continue reading →

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Manipulating XML Google Merchant Data using C# and LINQ

Posted on May 29, 2020 by briancaos

Receiving a Google Merchant Data feed (also known as a Google Product Feed) can be fairly easily manipulated on import time using a little C# and LINQ. The feed is basically a XML RSS 2.0 feed with some added properties … Continue reading →

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Remove duplicates from XML feed

Posted on April 1, 2020 by briancaos

Apparently XML isn’t dead yet, and today I received a Google Product Feed in the RSS 2.0 XML format. The feed was full of duplicates and my job is to remove them: As you can see, “Product 100” appears twice. … Continue reading →

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Deserialize XML array to string[] and how to allow JSON to be deserialized into the same POCO class

Posted on April 1, 2019 by briancaos

How do you deserialize the classic XML array to an string[] type? The XML representation of an array is a list of elements: And the MyArray would normally be deserialized to an annoying class: The solution is to use the … Continue reading →

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XElement get default values using extension methods

Posted on January 9, 2012 by briancaos

I often work with dynamic XML documents which might or might not contain the element, field or attribute that I am looking for. The Standard .NET XElement class is pretty strict (as it should be) and returns a null reference … Continue reading →

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Creating a tree like left menu in Sitecore using UserControls and C#

Posted on August 3, 2011 by briancaos

This post is a follow-up on the article on how to create a tree like left menu in Sitecore using XSLT. This time I will not use XSLT to create my left menu, but instead I will use C# and … Continue reading →

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