Question

I have generated classes from xsd and want to serialize the DateTime. My class looks like

private System.DateTime timeGMT; 

 [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(DataType="time")] 
 public System.DateTime TimeGMT { 
     get { 
         return this.timeGMT; 
     } 
     set { 
         this.timeGMT= value; 
     } 
 }

But when I assign any DateTime object It serializes in format as

<TimeGMT>12:00:00.0000000-04:00</TimeGMT>

But I want it to be serialized as

<TimeGMT>12:00:00</TimeGMT>

I had a look at this question :

Serializing DateTime to time without milliseconds and gmt

which is similar to my case. But my problem is I also want to validate the generated xml against xsd. So I cannot convert the return type to string. If I use String as return type then get an exception while generating XML:

time is an invalid value for XMLElementAttribute.DataType property.The property may be specified for only primitive types.

Is there any other way out there?

Answer 1

I didn’t change the XML schema because it is used as standard. I removed

[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(DataType="time")]  

from my class and used the solution suggested in

Serializing DateTime to time without milliseconds and gmt