Xml Serialization vs. “True” and “False”

Question

I\'m having an issue with deserializing an XML file with boolean values. The source XML files I\'m deserializing were created from a VB6 app, where all boolean values are c

Answer 1

You could read that value as a string into a string field, then have a readonly bool field that had an if statement in it to return bool true or false.

For example (using c#):

public bool str2bool(string str)
{
  if (str.Trim().ToUpper() == "TRUE")
      return true;
  else
      return false;
}

And you can use it in the template: