Xml node with attributes and content at the same time

[bcichonski]

It seems to me that when using default XmlSerializer there is no way to produce xml node that has attribute values and text content at the same time. This was originally found when my team was using RestSharp for communicating with Prestashop 1.6 API, where some nodes should look like:

<language id="1">
 Beer
</language>

[bcichonski]

Questions to consider:

1. Does it really not possible with default XmlSerializer?
2. Does it possible using standard DotNetXmlSerializer and if so will it have any impact of best implementation approach?

[bcichonski]

Can be done using DotNetSerializer https://dotnetfiddle.net/pMfHrM - code not working because namespace System.Xml.* is not available.

I think that to achieve maximum consistency it will be best to extend SerializeAs and DeserializeAs attributes with another property Content = true.

• [x] Extension of SerializeAs(Content = true) attribute and handling in XmlSerializer
• [x] Unit tests for SerializeAs(Content = true) (min two cases)
• [x] Extension of DeserializeAs(Content = true) attribute and handling in XmlDeserializer
• [x] Unit tests for DeserializeAs(Content = true) (min two cases)