How to set an string element's value to a CDATA block?

[soccerdad]

I've got a class hierarchy generated from a .xsd schema file using the
XSD.EXE tool. One of the elements will have its "inner text" set to a CDATA
block. The XSD.EXE tool exposed a "Value" property on that element to allow
setting that inner text. After I create the object hierarchy and specify all
the appropriate elements, attributes, etc., I serialize the objects to a .xml
file using XmlSerializer.

If I simply specify the "element.Value" property to the string data (what
should go inside the CDATA), the string simply becomes the inner text - it's
not wrapped in the CDATA delimiters. So it would appear that the classes
generated by XSD.EXE either can't or don't have enough information to
automatically wrap the data in a CDATA.

If I try to manually wrap the string data by specifying element.Value as
"<![CDATA[" + string + "]]>", the '<' and '>' characters get encoded as < and

respectively when I serialize the object to an XML file.

Is there a way to get the behavior I need - that is, the string data is
properly wrapped in the CDATA markers to create a valid element with CDATA
inner text?

Thanks,

Donnie

[soccerdad]

(Part of this got mangled when posting...)

The problem that happens when I try to manually wrap the string data in the
normal CDATA delimiters is that the "less than" symbol at the start of the
CDATA section gets converted during serialization to the "& l t ;" entity,
and correspondingly with the "greater than" symbol that ends the CDATA
section.

This obviously makes it an invalid CDATA section and is not what I want.

Thanks again,

Donnie

"soccerdad" wrote:

I've got a class hierarchy generated from a .xsd schema file using the
XSD.EXE tool. One of the elements will have its "inner text" set to a CDATA
block. The XSD.EXE tool exposed a "Value" property on that element to allow
setting that inner text. After I create the object hierarchy and specify all
the appropriate elements, attributes, etc., I serialize the objects to a .xml
file using XmlSerializer.

If I simply specify the "element.Value" property to the string data (what
should go inside the CDATA), the string simply becomes the inner text - it's
not wrapped in the CDATA delimiters. So it would appear that the classes
generated by XSD.EXE either can't or don't have enough information to
automatically wrap the data in a CDATA.

If I try to manually wrap the string data by specifying element.Value as
"<![CDATA[" + string + "]]>", the '<' and '>' characters get encoded as < and

respectively when I serialize the object to an XML file.

Is there a way to get the behavior I need - that is, the string data is
properly wrapped in the CDATA markers to create a valid element with CDATA
inner text?

Thanks,

Donnie