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| McGiv |
 Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:49 pm |
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Hi,
I'm trying to serialise some objects and I've can't get the built in
serialisation to output exactly what I want. For the moment I'm
implementing the IXmlSerializable interface and doing it the long way.
For future reference is it possible to specify how a property should
be formatted when being serialised?
Example:
In the following code I want the Time property to be formatted not to
the default .ToString() but to .ToUniversalTime().ToString("r")
[Serializable]
public class Test
{
[XmlElement("time")]
public DateTime Time;
}
I was wondering is there an attribute that I can add along with
XmlElement to do this?
Perhaps something link:
[XmlElement("time"), XmlFormat(formatDate)]
public DateTime Time;
void FormatDate(object obj, XmlWriter writer)
{
DateTime dt = (DateTime)obj;
writer.WriteString( dt.ToUniversalTime().ToString("r") );
}
Where xmlformat created a delegate of type:
public delegate void XmlPropertyFormatter(object obj, XmlWriter
writer);
and when the Time property is to be serialised it calls the delegate
passing the Time property as the object parameter and the XmlWriter.
Cheers
Damien |
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