Exclude root node from xml using xmlserializer

Question

I have a nested class which i use xmlserializer to convert it to xml.

public class RequestModel{

        [XmlElement("message", Namespace = "http://www.origostandards.com/schema/mtg/v2")]
        public Message message { get; set; }

        public RequestModel()
        {
            this.message = new Message();
        }
        public class Message
        {
           //other constructor here etc
        }
}

When it serializes it all compiles without issue however the output is as follows:

<RequestModel>
   <mtg:message>
   ...
   </mtg:message>
</RequestModel>

Is there a way to exclude the class name from serializing so that message would become the top node and the output would look like:

<mtg:message>
  ...
</mtg:message>

I have tried adding a Boolean for visibility of the node as well as things as XmlIgnore and XmlRoot but these attributes don't really fit with my solution.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try different c# namespaces :

namespace RequestA
{
    public class RequestModel
    {

        [XmlElement("message", Namespace = "http://www.origostandards.com/schema/mtg/v2")]
        public Message.Message message { get; set; }

        public RequestModel()
        {
            this.message = new Message.Message();
        }
     }
}
namespace RequestB
{

    public class RequestModel
    {
        [XmlElement("message", Namespace = "http://www.origostandards.com/schema/mtg/v2")]
        public Message.Message message { get; set; }

        public RequestModel()
        {
            this.message = new Message.Message();
        }
    }
}
namespace Message
{
        public class Message
        {
            //other constructor here etc
        }

}