XmlSerializer in .NET with XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified

Question

Given the following code snippet:

using System;
using System.Xml.Schema;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace XmlSerializationTest
{
    [XmlType(Namespace = "http://www.test.com")]
    public class Element
    {
        [XmlElement]
        public int X;
    }

    [XmlRoot(Namespace = "http://www.test.com")]
    public class Root
    {
        [XmlElement(Form = XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]
        public Element Element;
    }

    public static class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var root = new Root { Element = new Element { X = 1 } };
            var xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Root));
            xmlSerializer.Serialize(Console.Out, root);
        }
    }
}

conclusion:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ibm852"?>
<Root xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.test.com">
  <Element xmlns="">
    <X xmlns="http://www.test.com">1</X>
  </Element>
</Root>

The question is why setting the Form property to XmlSchemaForm.Unqualifiedcauses the element namespace to Elementbe set to ""even if it has an attribute XmlTypeAttributewith the same namespace as the Root element?

This type of code (part XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified) is generated by the tool WSCF.blue, and it spoils the namespace.

Answer 1

You can override the namespace specified in the element type. For instance. You can have

[XmlElement(Namespace="http://foo.com")]
public Element Element;

And the output will be

<Root xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.test.com">
  <Element xmlns="http://foo.com">
    <X xmlns="http://www.test.com">1</X>
  </Element>
</Root>

Microsoft Form = XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified Namespace "". , , - ( MSDN). , :

Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error reflecting type 'XmlSerializationTest.Root'. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error reflecting field 'Element'. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: The Form property may not be 'Unqualified' when an explicit Namespace property is present.