Determining Specified Elements After Deserialization

[Jay]

Hello all. When using the XmlSerializer, you can create a
property/field that tells the serializer whether or not to bother
putting an element in the document. For example:

// C# example.
public class MyClass {
[XmlIgnore]
public bool MyPropSpecified ;

public int MyProp;
}

If MyPropSpecified is true, the XmlSerializer will serialize the MyProp
property into the document. If it's false, the serializer skips it
entirely.

Is there a way this can be used in the inverse? When deserializing a
document containing a MyClass object, is there a way that I can tell
which one of the two situations occurred:
1) MyProp was specified in the document, and had a value of 0.
2) MyProp was not specified in the document, and the only reason
MyProp has a value of 0 is because that's how C# defaulted it.
Thanks,
Jay

[name]

// C# example.
public class MyClass {
[XmlIgnore]

"XmlIgnore"
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"Jay" <ja*@classless. net> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ f14g2000cwb.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hello all. When using the XmlSerializer, you can create a
property/field that tells the serializer whether or not to bother
putting an element in the document. For example:

// C# example.
public class MyClass {
[XmlIgnore]
public bool MyPropSpecified ;

public int MyProp;
}

If MyPropSpecified is true, the XmlSerializer will serialize the MyProp
property into the document. If it's false, the serializer skips it
entirely.

Is there a way this can be used in the inverse? When deserializing a
document containing a MyClass object, is there a way that I can tell
which one of the two situations occurred:
1) MyProp was specified in the document, and had a value of 0.
2) MyProp was not specified in the document, and the only reason
MyProp has a value of 0 is because that's how C# defaulted it.
Thanks,
Jay