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    copied!<p>I am brand new to C#. I'm taking a class on it right now, and one of our class examples wont compile. Visual Studio 2010 gives me this error: There is an error in XML document (3, 2).</p> <p>How should I edit the XML file to make it work with the code?</p> <p>Thank you for your help!</p> <pre><code>public class SerializeIn { public static void Main() { // Declarations. Person[] p = new Person[0]; string infile = "Persons.xml"; StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(infile); XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(p.GetType()); // Deserialize Person object from disc. p = (Person[])(xs.Deserialize(sr)); // Close StreamReader object to be safe. sr.Close(); // Write what happened. Console.WriteLine("Deserialized array p from output file " + infile + "."); // Print array. foreach(Person x in p) Console.WriteLine(x); Console.ReadLine(); } } </code></pre> <p>using System; namespace XmlArraySerialize { /// /// XmlArraySerialize Example: Serializes and deserializes /// an array of Person. /// </p> <pre><code>public class Person { public string name; public string gender; public int age; // Noarg constructor needed for compatibility public Person() { } public Person(string theName, string theGender, int theAge) { name = theName; gender = theGender; age = theAge; } public override string ToString() { return name + " " + gender + " " + age; } } </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>And the XML file...</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?&gt; &lt;!--Created by ToXml Example in IO--&gt; &lt;Persons&gt; &lt;Person ID="1001"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;Susan&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Gender&gt;F&lt;/Gender&gt; &lt;Age&gt;21&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;/Person&gt; &lt;Person ID="1002"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;Michael&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Gender&gt;M&lt;/Gender&gt; &lt;Age&gt;25&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;/Person&gt; &lt;Person ID="1003"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;Judy&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Gender&gt;F&lt;/Gender&gt; &lt;Age&gt;31&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;/Person&gt; &lt;Person ID="1004"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;Chloe&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Gender&gt;F&lt;/Gender&gt; &lt;Age&gt;27&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;/Person&gt; &lt;Person ID="1005"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;Scott&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Gender&gt;M&lt;/Gender&gt; &lt;Age&gt;58&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;/Person&gt; &lt;Person ID="1006"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;William&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Gender&gt;M&lt;/Gender&gt; &lt;Age&gt;41&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;/Person&gt; &lt;Person ID="1007"&gt; &lt;Name&gt;Mary&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Gender&gt;F&lt;/Gender&gt; &lt;Age&gt;30&lt;/Age&gt; &lt;/Person&gt; &lt;/Persons&gt; </code></pre>
 

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