Deserialize element value as string although it contains mixed content

Question

Assuming an XML like this:

    content
    
            


        

Answer 1

This isn't quite finished because I can't remember if you can / how to add the namespace prefix to the root element in Xml Serialization. But if you implement the IXmlSerializable interface in your MyRoot class like this:

[XmlRoot("Root", Namespace="http://foo/bar")]
public class MyRoot : IXmlSerializable

Then write the XML serialization methods yourself, something like this:

        void IXmlSerializable.ReadXml(System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
        {
            reader.MoveToContent();
            var outerXml = reader.ReadOuterXml();
            XElement root = XElement.Parse(outerXml);

            this.FieldBasic = root.Elements(XName.Get("FieldBasic", "http://foo/bar")).First().Value;
            this.FieldComplex = root.Elements(XName.Get("FieldComplex", "http://foo/bar")).First().Elements().First().Value.Trim();
        }



        void IXmlSerializable.WriteXml(System.Xml.XmlWriter writer)
        {
            writer.WriteRaw(String.Format("\r\n\t\r\n\t\t{0}\r\n\t", this.FieldBasic));
            writer.WriteRaw(String.Format("\r\n\t\r\n\t\t{0}\r\n\t\r\n", this.FieldComplex));
        }

(Return null from the GetSchema method)

This should get you at least pretty close to what you're after.

You may also find these links helpful.

IXmlSerializable

Namespaces