Question

I’ve an ASP.NET webservice which has this class

    public class Contact
    {
        public int type;
        public string data;
    }

the problem is that sometimes the “type” variable has no data, so by default it will be considered 0 and will return 0 in the XML as shown:

<Contact>
    <type>0</type>
    <data>Hello</data>
</Contact>

how can i avoid returning the “type” variable when it’s 0 so that i can get the following output:

<Contact>
    <data>Hello</data>
</Contact>

Note: if a changed the type to be a string then the problem is solved, but i have other classes and i have to set the type of their variables. so this solution is not going to work.

any idea?

thanks

Answer 1

after searching and as @AVD pointed in the comment it’s not possible.