I am having problems serializing a cdata section using c#
I need to serialize XmlCDataSection object property as the innertext of the element.
The result I am looking for is this:
<Test value2="Another Test">
<![CDATA[<p>hello world</p>]]>
</Test>
To produce this, I am using this object:
public class Test
{
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlText()]
public XmlCDataSection value { get; set; }
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
public string value2 { get; set; }
}
When using the xmltext annotation on the value property the following error is thrown.
System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error reflecting property 'value'. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot serialize member 'value' of type System.Xml.XmlCDataSection. XmlAttribute/XmlText cannot be used to encode complex types
If I comment out the annotation, the serialization will work but the cdata section is placed into a value element which is no good for what I am trying to do:
<Test value2="Another Test">
<value><![CDATA[<p>hello world</p>]]></value>
</Test>
Can anybody point me in the right direction to getting this to work.
Thanks, Adam
Thanks Richard, only now had chance to get back to this. I think I have resolved the problem by using your suggestion. I have created a CDataField object using the following:
public class CDataField : IXmlSerializable
{
private string elementName;
private string elementValue;
public CDataField(string elementName, string elementValue)
{
this.elementName = elementName;
this.elementValue = elementValue;
}
public XmlSchema GetSchema()
{
return null;
}
public void WriteXml(XmlWriter w)
{
w.WriteStartElement(this.elementName);
w.WriteCData(this.elementValue);
w.WriteEndElement();
}
public void ReadXml(XmlReader r)
{
throw new NotImplementedException("This method has not been implemented");
}
}