Serialize and deserialize unknown XML

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I have a xml with large data.I know almost 90% of my xml content but remaining 10 % I need to serialize and deserialize dynamically.I know the Type of that part.
Sample xml
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<Vehicle version="2.0">
<engines>
<Engine Name="Turbo"/>
<Engine Name="Kappa"/>

<cars>
<Car Name="XX" Engine ="Turbo" Type="Premium">
<features>
<feature>
<attributename>TestAttribute
<type>Test1
<valuetype>TestFeature
<value>
<x>100
<y>200
<z>200
<d>400

<Car Name="YY" Engine ="Kappa">
<features>
<feature>
<attributename>TestAttribute
<type>Test1
<valuetype>TestFeature
<value>
XXXXX

<feature>
<attributename>TestAttribute
<type>YYY
<valuetype>TestXyz
<value>
<name>gdg
<age>drfd

Here the values inside the tag <value> will be be dynamic and I don't the content initially ,but I know the Type of that object.
Please anyone help to solve this issue.

What I have tried:

I have the data classes for that 90% of that xml.

Posted 11-Apr-17 19:34pm

sathish kumbanad

Updated 11-Apr-17 20:02pm

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*dan!sh* · Answer 1 · 2017-04-11T20:02:00

Have you considered using a Dictionary for storing these values? Here is how you can build it from XML.

This code will take all the values tags and store all its descendants as a dictionary.

C#

string xml = @"<start>
                <valuetype>testFeature1</valuetype>
                <values><a>1</a>2</values>
                <valuetype>testFeature2</valuetype>
                <values><x>10</x><y>20</y></values>
               </start>";

XDocument xDocument = XDocument.Parse(xml);
Dictionary<string,string> dynamicThings = xDocument.Root.Elements()
                                           .Where(x=> x.Name == "values")
                                           .Descendants()
                                           .Select(x => new { Key = x.Name, Value = x.Value })
                                           .ToDictionary(x => x.Key.ToString(), x => x.Value);