Question

Is there a way to force the XML serializer to add an element as inline rather than with the Value layout. I basically have just a giant list of structs and I’d like to add an inline element to each sub element that is enabled.

<main>
<item>
  <value>1</value>
  <name>Alphabet</name>
</item>
...
</main>

I basically want to add:

<item Enabled="true">

if the element block is enabled. IS there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Yes, just mark the Enabled property with the XmlAttributeAttribute:

[XmlAttribute("Enabled")]
public bool Enabled { get; set; }

Documentation on the attributes that control xml serialization can be found on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/83y7df3e%28v=VS.100%29.aspx