Is there an easy way to do this?  Without using style sheet filters,
etc?  I have a decorated class (uses [XmlRoot], [XmlAttribute], etc)
but I can only add one node at a time when I create the XML file--but
I want to add more than one node, however I get an error if you add
more than one node (error: cannot form XML).

If there's a short way to fix this please let me know.  I think I can
fix it using DOM and the "long  or hard way", by writing and reading
each node individually from a List (I've done this before).  But I'm
trying to do this the "short or easy way" using XML Serialization.

Thank you

RL

//Here is the code: self explanitory, two Decorated class nodes being
added, myDecPerson1 ("Rob1 Smith") and myDecPerson1 ("Rob2 Smith2")
// Discussion on stripping out top element here:  //
http://www.csharper.net/blog/serializing_without_the_namespace__xmlns__xmlns_xsd__xmlns_xsi_.aspx

 protected void cmd_Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DecoratedPerson myDecPerson1 = new DecoratedPerson();
            myDecPerson1.FirstName = "Rob1";
            myDecPerson1.LastName = "Smith1";
            myDecPerson1.Password = "SecretSmith";
            myDecPerson1.Email = "Smith1@a...";
            myDecPerson1.Age = int.Parse("99");
            myDecPerson1.UserId = "Rob1Smith";
            Guid myGuid = new Guid();
            myGuid = System.Guid.NewGuid();
            myDecPerson1.UserGuid = myGuid;
            // add to List
            myDecPersonList.Add(myDecPerson1);

            // now do second person, and add to list--fails!...

            DecoratedPerson myDecPerson2 = new DecoratedPerson();

            myDecPerson2.FirstName = "Rob2";
            myDecPerson2.LastName = "Smith2";
            myDecPerson2.Password = "SecretSmith2";
            myDecPerson2.Email = "Smith2@a...";
            myDecPerson2.Age = int.Parse("88");
            myDecPerson2.UserId = "Rob2Smith";
            myGuid = new Guid();
            myGuid = System.Guid.NewGuid();
            myDecPerson2.UserGuid = myGuid;
            myDecPersonList.Add(myDecPerson2);

            //create file and add nodes ..

            string totalFilepath = Path.Combine
(Request.PhysicalApplicationPath, @"App_Data
\XMLPasswordDoc77.xml");  //create path
            XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces
();

            ns.Add("mytest", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchemaMyOwn");

             XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
             settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = false; // Don't remove the
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

             XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(totalFilepath,
settings);


            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof
(DecoratedPerson));

            foreach (DecoratedPerson p in myDecPersonList)
            {

                 serializer.Serialize(writer, p, ns); //only works w/o
exception if only one element in list! if > 1 fails!
            }

            writer.Close();




        } //end of method


//OUTPUT (works if only one node in List):


//
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <MyEmployee xmlns:mytest="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchemaMyOwn"
GUID="665ae831-275e-427b-9737-9f3856c8c84a">
  <FiRstName>Rob1</FiRstName>
  <lAsTNaMe>Smith1</lAsTNaMe>
  <pAssworD>SecretSmith</pAssworD>
  <eeemaiL>Smith1@a...</eeemaiL>
  <Age>99</Age>
  <UserId>Rob1Smith</UserId>
  </MyEmployee>



// but error if you add more than one node (cannot form XML)

//Here is the decorated class...
[XmlRoot(ElementName="MyEmployee")]
    public class DecoratedPerson
    {
        private string firstName;
        private string lastName;
        private string password;
        private string email;
        private int age;
        private Guid userGuid;
        private string userId;

        [XmlElement(ElementName="FiRstName")]
        public string FirstName
        {
            get
            {
                return firstName;

            }
            set
            {
                firstName = value;
            }
        }

        [XmlElement(ElementName="lAsTNaMe")]
        public string LastName
        {
            get
            {
                return lastName;

            }
            set
            {
                lastName = value;
            }
        }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = "pAssworD")]
        public string Password
        {
            get
            {
                return password;

            }
            set
            {
                password = value;
            }
        }

        [XmlElement(ElementName = "eeemaiL")]
        public string Email
        {
            get
            {
                return email;

            }
            set
            {
                email = value;
            }
        }

        [XmlElement(IsNullable=false)]
        public int Age
        {
            get
            {
                return age;

            }
            set
            {
                age = value;
            }
        }

        [XmlAttribute(AttributeName="GUID")]
        public Guid UserGuid
        {
            get
            {
                return userGuid;

            }
            set
            {
                userGuid = value;
            }
        }

        [XmlElement(IsNullable = true)]
        public string UserId
        {
            get
            {
                return userId;

            }
            set
            {
                userId = value;
            }
        }


        public DecoratedPerson()
        {

        }
    }