c# - How do I Set XmlArrayItem Element name for a List<Custom> implementation?

Question

I want to create a custom XML structure as follows:

<Hotels>
    <Hotel />
</Hotels>

I've created an implementation of List just to be able to do this. My code is as follows:

[XmlRootAttribute(ElementName="Hotels")]
public class HotelList: List<HotelBasic>

Because the class that List holds is not named Hotel but HotelBasic my xml is like

<Hotels>
   <HotelBasic />
</Hotels>

How do I fix this without having to implement ISerializable or IEnumerable?

Answer 1

[XmlArray("Hotels")]
[XmlArrayItem(typeof(Hotel), ElementName="Hotel")]
public HotelList[] Messages { get; set; }

should produce:

<Hotels>
    <Hotel />
    <Hotel />
</Hotels>

---

[XmlRoot("Hotels")]
public class HotelList : IXmlSerializable
{
    public System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema GetSchema()
    {
        return null;
    }

    public void ReadXml(XmlReader reader)
    {
        this.Hotels = XDocument.Load(reader)
                               .Select(h => new Hotel { Name = (string)h.Attribute("name") }
                               .ToList();
    }

    public void WriteXml(XmlWriter writer)
    {
        throw new NotSupportedException();
    }
}