Serializing/deserializing partial XML files

[nelav]

I'm dealing with a number of large descriptive XML files that I only need to read the outer most elements, change the values and then save it out again.As an example -\[code\]<Model Name="someModel"> <Material Name="someMaterial" Effect="someEffect"> <Texture Name="tex1" Path="somePath"/> <Colour Name="colour1" Value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14593963/FFF"/> <Layer Index="0"/> ... many more elements I don't are about </Material></Model>\[/code\]I want to deserialize the above, change a Material attribute, and then save it back out again. But as I don't care about Materials elements (just its attributes), I'd rather not have to add them all to the class Im deserialzing too, .. however, I need them to still be written back out when I save.At the moment, I'm doing this as follows, but I'm wondering if there's a better way.\[code\]namespace WpfApplication9{ public class Material { [XmlAttribute] public string Name { get; set; } [XmlAttribute] public string Effect { get; set; } } public class Item { [XmlAttribute] public string Name { get; set; } public Material Material { get; set; } public static Item Load(string _path) { Item item = new Item(); item.m_doc = new XmlDocument(); item.m_doc.Load(_path); XmlNode rootNode = item.m_doc.FirstChild; item.Name = rootNode.Attributes["Name"].InnerText; XmlNode materialNode = rootNode.FirstChild; item.Material = new Material(); item.Material.Name = materialNode.Attributes["Name"].InnerText; item.Material.Effect = materialNode.Attributes["Effect"].InnerText; return item; } public void Save(string _path) { XmlNode rootNode = m_doc.FirstChild; rootNode.Attributes["Name"].InnerText = Name; XmlNode materialNode = rootNode.FirstChild; materialNode.Attributes["Name"].InnerText = Material.Name; materialNode.Attributes["Effect"].InnerText = Material.Effect; m_doc.Save(XmlWriter.Create(_path, new XmlWriterSettings() { IndentChars = "\t", Indent = true })); } XmlDocument m_doc; } public partial class MainWindow : Window { public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); Item item = Item.Load("Data.xml"); item.Name = "Terry"; item.Save("Data.xml"); } }}\[/code\]