Force whitespace escape in XML serialization

Asked May 16 '14 at 13:05

Active May 16 '14 at 13:38

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Is it possible to force the XmlSerializer to serialize a class like the following:

public class Dummy
{
    public string SomeString = " hello world ";
}

in something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Dummy>
  <SomeString>&#x0020;hello&#x0020;world&#x0020;</SomeString>
</Dummy>

EDIT

in other words I need to preserve all whitespace in the original string, otherwise how can I tell if a document like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Dummy>
  <SomeString>
     hello world</SomeString>
</Dummy>

contains the original whitespace before the word "hello"?

edited May 16 '14 at 13:38

asked May 16 '14 at 13:05

sblandin

look intoi this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1927006/in-c-how-to-get-xml-node-value-that-is-white-space – Dhaval Patel May 16 '14 at 13:08
Why do you want to do this? – phoog May 16 '14 at 13:20
it seems that the link you provide explains how to preserve whitespace when deserializing. I need to force whitespace escaping when serializing. Or is it enough to preserve when deserializing? – sblandin May 16 '14 at 13:22
@phoog I need for example leading or tailing spaces to be preserved. – sblandin May 16 '14 at 13:23

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