The Liquid XML Objects code generator creates a very light weight set of classes attributed with meta data to describe the underlying XML structure.

Code Generation Example

Consider the following schema

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!--Created with Liquid Studio (https://www.liquid-technologies.com)-->
<xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <xs:element name="Root">
        <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element name="MyElement" type="xs:boolean" />
                <xs:element name="MyElementCollection" type="xs:double" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
            </xs:sequence>
            <xs:attribute name="MyAttribute" type="xs:int" />
        </xs:complexType>
    </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

Which produces the following code

    public partial class RootElm
    {
        public System.Int32 MyAttribute { get; set; }
        public RootElm.RootSeq Seq { get; set; } = new RootElm.RootSeq();
        public partial class RootSeq
        {
            public System.Boolean MyElement { get; set; }
            public List<System.Double> MyElementCollection { get; } = new List<System.Double>();
        }
    }

Lets examine this is more details.

• The class RootElm is created to represent the Root xs:element in the XSD.
• The property MyAttribute is created for the corresponding xs:attribute in the Root xs:element.
• The 'Seq' property is created to represent the xs:sequence, and is defined in the nested class RootSeq definition.
• The class RootSeq contains the contents of the xs:sequence
  • The property MyElement represents the corresponding element in the xs:sequence
  • The property MyElementCollection, represents the corresponding element in the xs:sequenc (notice its a collection as maxOccurs is > 1).

This is a very basic example, but you can see that the generated code mirrors the structure of the XSD very closely, this includes representing the xs:sequence within the model. This makes it possible to provide an extremely accurate representation of the XML data within the class model.

The LxSerializer class is used to serialize and de-serialize the data from the generated classes