How to add attributes for C# XML Serialization

Question

I am having an issue with serializing and object, I can get it to create all the correct outputs except for where i have an Element that needs a value and an attribute. Here is the required output:

<Root>
  <Method>Retrieve</Method>
  <Options>
    <Filter>
      <Times>
        <TimeFrom>2009-06-17</TimeFrom>
      </Times>
      <Document type="word">document name</Document>
    </Filter>
  </Options>
</AdCourierAPI>

I can build all of it but can not find a way to set the Document type attribute, here is a segment of the object class

[XmlRoot("Root"), Serializable]    
public class Root    
{    
    [XmlElement("Method")]    
    public string method="RetrieveApplications";    
    [XmlElement("Options")]    
    public _Options Options;    
}    
public class _Options    
{
    [XmlElement("Filter")]    
    public _Filter Filter;    
}
public class _Filter    
{
    [XmlElement("Times")]    
    public _Times Times;    
    [XmlElement("Documents")]    
    public string Documents;    
}

which gives me:

<Document>document name</Document>

rather than:

<Document type="word">document name</Document>

but I can not find a way to correct this, please advise.

Thanks

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1012360/how-to-add-attributes-for-c-sharp-xml-serialization

Answer 1

Where do you have the type stored?

Normally you could have something like:

class Document {
    [XmlAttribute("type")]
    public string Type { get; set; }
    [XmlText]
    public string Name { get; set; }
}


public class _Filter    
{
    [XmlElement("Times")]    
    public _Times Times;    
    [XmlElement("Document")]    
    public Document Document;    
}