[Mono-list] what structure should I use

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:12 +0100, Malte Dreschert wrote:
> I want to read a textfile that contains the description of a hierarchy. 
> The hierarchy has nodes, which hae certain Attributes like name, 
> parentnode, translation and orientation. What is the best way to store 
> this kind of information? I was wondering if I can create a class (ie. 
> "node"), that has the Attributes as Members. I want to create an Object 
> of the class for each node in the file with the correct attributes and 
> store these Objects in an array. But I don't know if this is possible 
> and a smart thing to do.

Sounds like the perfect scenario for XML Serialization.  See the
attached program (xs.cs) which reads and writes the attached XML file
(new.xml).

 - Jon

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