To move XML node valus to my custom model

Question

I have string variable like xml structure:

string str = "<people><person><FirstName>Daniel</FirstName><LastName>Wylie</LastName></person>";

It has 1 node only. I need to convert it to my new model. I converted it to xml firstly like this:

 XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
 xmlDoc.LoadXml(xmlquery);

Now I need to move FirstName and LastName values from xml to following model:

public class Person 
{
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }
}

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Use XmlSerializer

But because your xml contain tag. Then create a class People for deserialization

public class People
{
    public List<Person> persons;
}

Then try:

XmlSerializer serial = new XmlSerializer(People.GetType());
//Convert yuor string to TextReader
using (TextReader reader = new StringReader(yourstring))
{
    People mans = serial.Deserialize(reader);
    Person man;
    if(mans.Count > 0)
        man = mans[0];
}