XmlRootAttribute.ElementName Property
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Gets or sets the name of the XML element that is generated and recognized by the XmlSerializer class's Serialize and Deserialize methods, respectively.
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.StringThe name of the XML root element that is generated and recognized in an XML-document instance. The default is the name of the serialized class.
Specify an ElementName if you want the name of the generated XML element to differ from the class name.
The following example creates an instance of the XmlRootAttribute class and sets the ElementName property to a new value. The object is then used to create an XmlAttributeOverrides object used to override the serialization of an object.