Is there a way to make the serialized member serialized as an attribute?

Question

Is there a way to make the serialized member serialize as an attribute:

<Serializable> 
Public Class Person
    Public Property Name As String
End Class

I want that when this class is xml serialized it should produce:

<Person Name="John Doe" />

And what I mean is that instead of the Name property should be serialized as an element, it should be serialized as an xml attribute.

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Shimmy Apr 22 10 at 5:45 am

1 answer

MA Hanin · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-22T06:04:58+0000

I think you are looking for the XmlAttribute :

<Serializable()> 
Public Class Person
    <Xml.Serialization.XmlAttribute()> 
    Public Property Name() As String
End Class

More details and attributes of Xml serialization here .