XML Serialization question - How to Serialize Element, Attribute and Text from One Object

Question

Hi,

I'm new into XML Serialization using .NET and after working with it for some time I'm quite fuzzled now. I can serialize elements with attributes containing other elements but how can I serialize something like

<myElement name="foo">bar</myElement>

I use a class for myElement with a XmlAttribute for the "name", but how to refer the value of the XML Element?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[XmlText], like so:

using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
[Serializable, XmlRoot("myElement")]
public class MyType {
    [XmlAttribute("name")]
    public string Name {get;set;}

    [XmlText]
    public string Text {get;set;}
} 
static class Program {
    static void Main() {
        new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyType)).Serialize(Console.Out,
            new MyType { Name = "foo", Text = "bar" });
    }
}