Deserializing XML, how do I access attributes?

Question

I have some XML that I am consuming and deserializing.

    
        ...
        ...

        

Answer 1

Normally:

[XmlAttribute]

(with optional name, namespace, etc) is what you are after.

However, you can't use that directly on a collection. You would need instead to have a wrapper class for Bars, with the attribute and a:

public class Foo {
    public BarWrapper Bars {get;set;}
}
public class BarWrapper {
    private readonly List<Bar> bars = new List<Bar>();
    [XmlElement("Bar")]
    public List<Bar> Items {get{return bars;}}

    [XmlAttribute]
    public int Baz {get;set;}
}
public class Bar {...}