Cannot Deserialize xml to List<T>

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  •  05-10-2022
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Question

Im trying to deserialize this xml response of wcf web service to List using XmlSerializer but it fails with exception message :There is an error in XML document (1, 2)

xml:

<ArrayOfNote xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/NotebookService" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Note>
    <Author>Redouane</Author>
    <Body>Test note</Body>
    <CreationDate>2014-01-28T00:00:00</CreationDate>
    <Id>1</Id>
    <Title>Hello World</Title>
  </Note>
</ArrayOfNote>

c#:

public class Note
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public System.DateTime CreationDate { get; set; }
    public string Author { get; set; }
    public string Body { get; set; }
}

and this is the code i wrote to deserialize the received stream

private HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
private List<Note> notes = new List<Note>();

. . .

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Note>));
var responseData = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();
List<Note> list = serializer.Deserialize(responseData) as List<Note>;

Please help!

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Solution

Change the creation of serializer as follows and it should work.

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Note>), 
                                new XmlRootAttribute("ArrayOfNote") { 
                                    Namespace = "http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/NotebookService" 
                                });
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