c# - How do I get the contents of an XML element using a XmlSerializer? -

i have xml reader on xml string:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <story id="1224488641nl21535800" date="20 oct 2008" time="07:44"> <title>press digest - portugal - oct 20</title> <text> <p>    lisbon, oct 20 (reuters) - following of main  stories in portuguese newspapers on monday. reuters has not verified these stories , not vouch accuracy. </p> <p>more html stuff here</p> </text> </story> 

i created xsd , corresponding class deserialization.

[system.xml.serialization.xmlrootattribute(namespace="", isnullable=false)] public class story {     [system.xml.serialization.xmlattributeattribute()]     public string id;     [system.xml.serialization.xmlattributeattribute()]     public string date;     [system.xml.serialization.xmlattributeattribute()]     public string time;     public string title;     public string text; } 

i create instance of class using deserialize method of xmlserializer.

xmlserializer ser = new xmlserializer(typeof(story)); return (story)ser.deserialize(xr); 

now, text member of story null. how change story class xml parsed expected?

edit:

using xmltext not work , have no control on xml i'm parsing.

i found very unsatisfactory solution.

change class (ugh!)

// ... [xmlelement("hack - should never match anything")] public string text; // ... 

and change calling code (yuck!)

xmlserializer ser = new xmlserializer(typeof(story)); string text = string.empty; ser.unknownelement += delegate(object sender, xmlelementeventargs e) {     if (e.element.name != "text")         throw new xmlexception(               string.format(cultureinfo.invariantculture,               "unknown element '{0}' cannot deserialized.",              e.element.name));     text += e.element.innerxml; };  story result = (story)ser.deserialize(xr); result.text = text; return result; 

this bad way of doing because breaks encapsulation. there better way of doing it?