Question

I have a class written in the following manner:

[XmlRoot]
public class MyXMLElement
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string AnAttribute { get; set; }

    [XmlAttribute]
    public string AnotherElementAttribute { get; set; }
}

When this is serialized, I want to set its Value, so I get something like the following:

<MyXMLElement AnAttribute="something" AnotherElementAttribute="something else">The inner value of the element</MyXMLElement>

Anyone have ideas?

Answer 1

If you want to set the value of the element, you can use the [XmlText] attribute:

[XmlRoot]
public class MyXMLElement
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string AnAttribute { get; set; }

    [XmlAttribute]
    public string AnotherElementAttribute { get; set; }

    [XmlText]
    public string Value { get; set; }
}