How to serialize an object to XML with dynamic element's attribute?

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

• 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:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmltextattribute.aspx, 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" }); } }