Index: DamTools/LayerOnSlopeTool/trunk/src/Deltares.LayerOnSlopeTool.Io/MStabDamXmlSerializer.cs
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diff -u -r3114 -r3115
--- DamTools/LayerOnSlopeTool/trunk/src/Deltares.LayerOnSlopeTool.Io/MStabDamXmlSerializer.cs	(.../MStabDamXmlSerializer.cs)	(revision 3114)
+++ DamTools/LayerOnSlopeTool/trunk/src/Deltares.LayerOnSlopeTool.Io/MStabDamXmlSerializer.cs	(.../MStabDamXmlSerializer.cs)	(revision 3115)
@@ -27,8 +27,22 @@
 
 namespace Deltares.LayerOnSlopeTool.Io
 {
+    /// <summary>Serialize and de-serialize form XML
+    /// DGSMStabDam.dll requires XML-element identifiers which are prefixed with "tns:" and "tnsb:".
+    /// These prefixes cannot be handled by the automatic XML serializer object generation with XSD.exe
+    /// So we apply pre- and post- processors to add and remove these prefixes.
+    /// Also the XML identification header has to be changed to accomodate this.</summary>
     public class MStabDamXmlSerializer
     {
+        private const string tnsPrefixSrc = "tnsPrefix";
+        private const string tnsPrefixDest = "tns:";
+        private const string tnsbPrefixSrc = "tnsbPrefix";
+        private const string tnsbPrefixDest = "tnsb:";
+        private const string idLineSrc =
+            @"<tns:DamMStabDoc xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"" xmlns:xsd=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"">";
+        private const string idLineDest =
+            @"<tns:DamMStabDoc xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"" xmlns:tns=""http://deltares.nl/2008/DamMStabDocDefinition"" xmlns:tnsb=""http://deltares.nl/2008/DamMStabInputDefinition"">";
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Saves the tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc as XML.
         /// </summary>
@@ -63,23 +77,42 @@
             XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc));
             TextWriter writer = new StringWriter();
             xmlSerializer.Serialize(writer, tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc);
-            return writer.ToString();
+            string xmlString = writer.ToString();
+            xmlString = PreProcessPrefixes(xmlString);
+            return xmlString;
         }
 
+        private static string PreProcessPrefixes(string xmlString)
+        {
+            xmlString = xmlString.Replace(tnsbPrefixSrc, tnsbPrefixDest);
+            xmlString = xmlString.Replace(tnsPrefixSrc, tnsPrefixDest);
+            xmlString = xmlString.Replace(idLineSrc, idLineDest);
+            return xmlString;
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Loads the tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc from XML string.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="xmlString">The XML string.</param>
         /// <returns>tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc object</returns>
         public static tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc LoadDamMStabDocFromXmlString(string xmlString)
         {
+            xmlString = PostProcessPrefixes(xmlString);
             tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc;
             XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc));
             StringReader reader = new StringReader(xmlString);
             tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc = (tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(reader);
             return tnsPrefixDamMStabDoc;
         }
 
+        private static string PostProcessPrefixes(string xmlString)
+        {
+            xmlString = xmlString.Replace(tnsbPrefixDest, tnsbPrefixSrc);
+            xmlString = xmlString.Replace(tnsPrefixDest, tnsPrefixSrc);
+            xmlString = xmlString.Replace(idLineDest, idLineSrc);
+            return xmlString;
+        }
+
         private static tnsPrefixDamMStabDocTnsPrefixFileIdentification CreateFileIdentification()
         {
             tnsPrefixDamMStabDocTnsPrefixFileIdentification tnsPrefixDamMStabDocFileIdentification = new tnsPrefixDamMStabDocTnsPrefixFileIdentification();