There is an error while deserializing an XML document

Question

I get an error when deserializing an XML document into an object. How can this be solved?

There is an error in the XML document (5, 14)

This is an XML document:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <Customer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <FirstName>Khaled</FirstName> <LastName>Marouf</LastName> </Customer><?xml version="1.0"?> <Customer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <FirstName>Faisal</FirstName> <LastName>Damaj</LastName> </Customer><?xml version="1.0"?> <Customer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <FirstName>Lara</FirstName> <LastName>Khalil</LastName> </Customer> 

Answer 1

Your XML document is actually three documents. A valid XML document must contain only one root root. In addition, XML declarations are not allowed inside the document.

This is valid XML (XML declaration first, one root element):

 <?xml version="1.0"?> <Customer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <FirstName>Khaled</FirstName> <LastName>Marouf</LastName> </Customer> 

This is invalid XML (multiple root elements, xml declaration inside the document):

 <?xml version="1.0"?> <Customer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <FirstName>Khaled</FirstName> <LastName>Marouf</LastName> </Customer><?xml version="1.0"?> <Customer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <FirstName>Faisal</FirstName> <LastName>Damaj</LastName> </Customer> 

Answer 2

To expand on the response of Fredrik Mörk , the key is in the error message: (5, 14) refers to the line number and column number where the parser considers the problem, Here it points to the second XML declaration, which, as mentioned, is not resolved .

Answer 3

Add a root element to your Customer elements.

Answer 4

Try it...

 <?xml version="1.0"?> <ArrayOfCustomer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <Customer> <FirstName>Khaled</FirstName> <LastName>Marouf</LastName> </Customer> <Customer> <FirstName>Faisal</FirstName> <LastName>Damaj</LastName> </Customer> <Customer> <FirstName>Lara</FirstName> <LastName>Khalil</LastName> </Customer> </ArrayOfCustomer>