您已将nil 属性放置在默认命名空间中。您需要将其放在 "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 命名空间中。执行此操作的常规方法是将其放在带有 xsi 前缀的根元素中:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<order xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
<buyer-accepts-marketing type="boolean">false</buyer-accepts-marketing>
<closed-at type="datetime" xsi:nil="true"></closed-at>
</order>
但将它放在"closed-at" 元素本身上在语义上是相同的:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<order >
<buyer-accepts-marketing type="boolean">false</buyer-accepts-marketing>
<closed-at xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" type="datetime" i:nil="true"></closed-at>
</order>
由于DateTime? ClosedAt 不为空(因为它没有正确的xsi:nil="true" 属性)而且也不能反序列化为DateTime(因为值为空),所以XmlSerializer 会混淆并抛出一个例外。
更新
如果您无法将 XML 更改为包含 standard representation for a null DateTime,则需要实现代理属性以手动进行转换。由于您没有在问题中指定是否需要反序列化和反序列化,因此以下两者都可以:
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "order")]
public class Order
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "buyer-accepts-marketing")]
public bool BuyerAcceptsMarketing { get; set; }
[XmlIgnore]
public DateTime? ClosedAt { get; set; }
[XmlElement("closed-at")]
[Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public XmlDateTimeWrapper XmlDateTime
{
get
{
return ClosedAt;
}
set
{
ClosedAt = value;
}
}
}
public class XmlDateTimeWrapper
{
public static implicit operator DateTime?(XmlDateTimeWrapper wrapper) { return wrapper == null ? null : wrapper.DateTime; }
public static implicit operator XmlDateTimeWrapper(DateTime? dateTime) { return new XmlDateTimeWrapper { DateTime = dateTime }; }
[XmlIgnore]
public DateTime? DateTime { get; set; }
[XmlText]
public string DateTimeString
{
get
{
if (DateTime == null)
return string.Empty;
return XmlConvert.ToString(DateTime.Value, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode.Utc);
}
set
{
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
DateTime = null;
else
DateTime = XmlConvert.ToDateTime(value, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode.Utc);
}
}
[XmlAttribute("type")]
public string Type { get { return "datetime"; } set { /* Do nothing */ } }
[XmlAttribute("nil")]
public bool Nil { get { return DateTime == null; } set { /* Do nothing */ } }
}
如果您从不需要序列化回来,您可以使用字符串值代理属性:
[XmlRoot(ElementName = "order")]
public class Order
{
[XmlElement(ElementName = "buyer-accepts-marketing")]
public bool BuyerAcceptsMarketing { get; set; }
[XmlIgnore]
public DateTime? ClosedAt { get; set; }
[XmlElement("closed-at")]
[Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public string XmlDateTime
{
get
{
return ClosedAt == null ? null : XmlConvert.ToString(ClosedAt.Value, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode.Utc);
}
set
{
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
ClosedAt = null;
else
ClosedAt = XmlConvert.ToDateTime(value, XmlDateTimeSerializationMode.Utc);
}
}
}