Using XmlSerializer to create an element with attributes and a value but no sub-element

Question

Hopefully this should be an easy answer for someone out there (and possibly a dupe), but I can\'t seem to figure it out.

I need to output an element that looks like

Answer 1

I find the answer here: Xmlserializer - Control Element-Attribute Pairing (revised).

Here is how to do it: mark the value property with the [XmlText] attribute.

public class Quantity {
  // your attributes
  [XmlAttribute]
  public string foo;

  [XmlAttribute]
  public string bar;

  // and the element value (without a child element)
  [XmlText]
  public int qty;

}