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    <p>Suppose I have an XML-serializable class called <strong>Song</strong>:</p> <pre><code>[Serializable] class Song { public string Artist; public string SongTitle; } </code></pre> <p>In order to save space (and also <em>semi-obfuscate</em> the XML file), I decide to rename the xml elements:</p> <pre><code>[XmlRoot("g")] class Song { [XmlElement("a")] public string Artist; [XmlElement("s")] public string SongTitle; } </code></pre> <p>This will produce XML output like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Song&gt; &lt;a&gt;Britney Spears&lt;/a&gt; &lt;s&gt;I Did It Again&lt;/s&gt; &lt;/Song&gt; </code></pre> <p>I want to rename/remap the name of the class/object as well. Say, in the above example, I wish to rename the class <strong>Song</strong> to <strong>g</strong>. So that the resultant xml should look like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;g&gt; &lt;a&gt;Britney Spears&lt;/a&gt; &lt;s&gt;I Did It Again&lt;/s&gt; &lt;/g&gt; </code></pre> <p>Is it possible to rename class-names <strong>via xml-attributes</strong>?</p> <p>I don't wish to create/traverse the DOM manually, so I was wondering if it could be achieved via a decorator.</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Oops! This time I <strong>really</strong> did it again! Forgot to mention - I'm actually serializing a list of Song objects in the XML.</p> <p>Here's the serialization code:</p> <pre><code> public static bool SaveSongs(List&lt;Song&gt; songs) { XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List&lt;Song&gt;)); using (TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter("filename")) { serializer.Serialize(textWriter, songs); } } </code></pre> <p>And here's the XML output:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;ArrayOfSong&gt; &lt;Song&gt; &lt;a&gt;Britney Spears&lt;/a&gt; &lt;s&gt;Oops! I Did It Again&lt;/s&gt; &lt;/Song&gt; &lt;Song&gt; &lt;a&gt;Rihanna&lt;/a&gt; &lt;s&gt;A Girl Like Me&lt;/s&gt; &lt;/Song&gt; &lt;/ArrayOfSong&gt; </code></pre> <p>Apparently, the <strong>XmlRoot()</strong> attribute doesn't rename the object in a list context.</p> <p>Am I missing something?</p>
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    1. COI think there is an error in the XML. "I did it again" is not the correct title of the song. The correct title is; "Oops!...I Did It Again". (Just to prevent future frustrations with validators)
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    3. COSee my updated response based on your clarification.
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