Xml Deserialization with complex elements in c# -

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i having troubles deserialization of xml string object. not getting errors values aren't populating (the values aren't null ""). i've looked @ few questions had same issue problems consisted of people not having [xmlroot] or [xmlelement] defined.

here bit of xml string:

string xmlstring = @"<results><dpv_answer value=""y"" /><zip value=""95118-4007"" /></results>" 

here function deseralize:

standardaddress address = new standardaddress();  using (xmlreader reader = xmlreader.create(new stringreader(xml))) {     try     {         address = (standardaddress)new xmlserializer(typeof(standardaddress)).deserialize(reader);     }     catch (invalidoperationexception x)     {         // string passed not xml, return defaultxmlclass     } }  return address; 

here bit of object declaration:

[xmlroot("results")] public class standardaddress {     [xmlelement(elementname = "dpv_answer")]     public string dpv_answer { get; set; }     [xmlelement(elementname = "zip")]     public string zip { get; set; } } 

dpv_answer , zip complex elements not string. try following:

[xmlroot("results")] public class standardaddress {     [xmlelement(elementname = "dpv_answer")]     public dpv_answer dpv_answer { get; set; }      [xmlelement(elementname = "zip")]     public zip zip { get; set; } }  public class dpv_answer {     [xmlattribute("value")]     public string value { get; set; } }   public class zip {     [xmlattribute("value")]     public string value { get; set; } }