XmlSerializer property converter

Question

Suppose we have a class which can be serialized/deserialized by XmlSerializer. It would be like so:

[XmlRoot(\"ObjectSummary\")]
public class Summary
{
              


        

Answer 1

The way I do it - which is suboptimal but have not found a better way - is to define two properties:

[XmlRoot("ObjectSummary")]
public class Summary
{
     public string Name {get;set;}
     [XmlIgnore]
     public bool IsValid {get;set;}
     [XmlElement("IsValid")]
     public string IsValidXml {get{ ...};set{...};}

}

Replace ... with the simple code to read and write the IsValid value to Y and N and read from it.