XmlTextAttribute with type string informs the XmlSerializer that strings should be serialized as XML text : Xml serialization « XML « C# / CSharp Tutorial

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using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;


public class MyValue1
{
    [XmlText(typeof(string))]
    [XmlElement(typeof(int))]
    [XmlElement(typeof(double))]
    public object[] All = new object[] { 321, "One", 2, 3.0, "Two" };
}

public class MyValue2
{
    [XmlText(Type = typeof(MyValueType))]
    public MyValueType Type;
}
public enum MyValueType
{
    Small,
    Medium,
    Large
}

public class MyValue3
{
    [XmlText(Type = typeof(DateTime))]
    public DateTime CreationTime = DateTime.Now;
}

public class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Test t = new Test();
        t.SerializeArray("XmlText1.xml");
    }

    private void SerializeArray(string filename)
    {
        XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyValue1));
        MyValue1 myValue1 = new MyValue1();

        TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filename);

        ser.Serialize(writer, myValue1);
        writer.Close();
    }

}