Is it possible in XSL to flatten XML hierarchy?

Question

I have the following structure to XML file:

<INSTANCE>
  <Sections>
    <Section>
      <Forms>
        <Form>
          <Control id="GroupHeading1">
            <Property/>
            <Property/>
          </Control>
          <Control id="GroupHeading2">
           <Property/>
            <Control id="TextBox">
              <Property/>
              <Property/>
            </Control>
          </Control>
        </Form>
      </Forms>
    </Section>
  </Sections>
</INSTANCE>

I am trying to deserialize this into C# object, but I don't need to preserve the hierarchy (which is making it difficult for me to deserialize).

Is there XSL that can transform this to un-nest the Controls, and if possible add an attribute to any child Control with ParentId=""?

Thank you for any guidance!

Answer 1

Given XML, the XmlSerializer can produce a graph of objects that hold the same instance data.
This is known as XML de-serialization

You need to look here :

• Using the XmlSerializer Attributes
• Serialization and Deserialization in ASP.NET with C#