Yet Another XML Serialization Library for the .NET Framework

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using YAXLib;

namespace DemoApplication.SampleClasses
{
    public class Author3
    {
        [YAXSerializeAs("AuthorName")]
        [YAXAttributeFor("../PublishYear")]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [YAXSerializeAs("AuthorAge")]
        [YAXElementFor("..")]
        public int Age { get; set; }
    }

    [YAXComment(@"This example shows how to serialize collection objects while
            not serializing the element for their enclosing collection itself")]
    public class MoreComplexBook3
    {
        public string Title { get; set; }

        [YAXComment("Comment for author")]
        public Author3 Author { get; set; }

        public int PublishYear { get; set; }
        public double Price { get; set; }

        [YAXCollection(YAXCollectionSerializationTypes.RecursiveWithNoContainingElement, EachElementName="Editor")]
        public string[] Editors { get; set; }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return GeneralToStringProvider.GeneralToString(this);
        }

        public static MoreComplexBook3 GetSampleInstance()
        {
            Author3 auth = new Author3() { Age = 30, Name = "Tom Archer" };
            return new MoreComplexBook3()
            {
                Title = "Inside C#",
                Author = auth,
                Editors = new string[] {"Mark Twain", "Timothy Jones", "Oliver Twist"},
                PublishYear = 2002,
                Price = 30.5
            };
        }
    }
}