XmlSerializer, XmlAnyElement and CDATA

[Munish]

(VS.NET 2K3, C#)
Hi,
I need to serialize/deserialize an element using XmlSerializer that can
contain any valid XML including a CDATA section.

[XmlRootAttribute]
public class Test
{
[XmlAnyElement]
public XmlElement Anything;
}

This doesn't work with an XML like the following:
<Test><![CDATA[ msgbox "Hi222"]]></Test>

However this works fine:
<Test><Wrap><![CDATA[ msgbox "Hi222"]]></Wrap></Test>

Unfortunately in my case the XML between <Test> comes from outside of my
application and can contain virtually anything. I just need to be able to
read/write this data and may be pass on to someone else. Changing XmlElement
in the example above to XmlLinkedNode doesn't help.

Thanks for your help.

[Zafar Abbas]

The object model to deserialize unwrapped [CDATA] nodes should be different:
you need to use XmlNode (or XmlNode[]) instead of XmlElement

[XmlRootAttribute]

public class Test

{

[XmlAnyElement]

public XmlNode Anything;

}

"Munish" <Mu****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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(VS.NET 2K3, C#)
Hi,
I need to serialize/deserialize an element using XmlSerializer that can
contain any valid XML including a CDATA section.

[XmlRootAttribute]
public class Test
{
[XmlAnyElement]
public XmlElement Anything;
}

This doesn't work with an XML like the following:
<Test><![CDATA[ msgbox "Hi222"]]></Test>

However this works fine:
<Test><Wrap><![CDATA[ msgbox "Hi222"]]></Wrap></Test>

Unfortunately in my case the XML between <Test> comes from outside of my
application and can contain virtually anything. I just need to be able to
read/write this data and may be pass on to someone else. Changing XmlElement in the example above to XmlLinkedNode doesn't help.

Thanks for your help.

[Munish]

Thanks for replying, but that doesn't work. As I mentioned before going to a
common base class of XmlElement and XmlCDataSection (XmlLinkedNode for
example) doesn't help.

Any other way?