Using xmlserialization to create an xml document...have a question [modified]

[LongRange Shooter]

I'm taking data from a database and feeding it into an application that takes an XML file as input. One of their fields is basically an enumerator value so I created a class that would attach the attribute to the field:

    StaticType<int;> contractType;
    ...

\[Serializable\]
public class StaticType<T>
{
	public StaticType( ) { }
	public StaticType( T initialValue )
	{
		internalValue = initialValue;
		initialValue = index;
	}
	private T initialValue;
	private int initialIndex;
	\[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="staticValue")\]
	public T InternalValue
	{
		get { return initialValue; }
		set { initialValue = value; }
	}

}

The output works great and I get a field as such: <someDataType staticValue="1" /> Here is the question: Reading further into the documentation it looks like I might have to pass the value for some reason as well. So I'm puzzled as to how to construct the class so that my output gets created as: <someDataType staticValue="1">some text value</someDataType> Any ideas?

modified on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:17 PM

[Le centriste]

Using Xml serialization, you cannot have that construct. Instead, it would looks something like: <someDataType staticValue="1"><Value>some text value </Value></someDataType> You would require another property in your object, named Value (or whatever name you chose).

[LongRange Shooter]

Yeh, that was the only solution I saw as well. Thanks.