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copied!<p>I will not use the same classes from your example, I'll give a little example of myself. </p> <p>You need to implement the method public bool ShouldSerialize*<em>Name</em>*() where Name is the name of the attribute of which you want to have the control of the serialization.</p> <p>For example, I have this class:</p> <pre><code>[Serializable] public class SerializeExample { public string ResultType { get; set; } public string Error { get; set; } public string Failure { get; set; } public List<string> Steps { get; set; } public bool ShouldSerializeError() { return "Error".Equals(ResultType); } public bool ShouldSerializeFailure() { return "Failure".Equals(ResultType); } public bool ShouldSerializeSteps() { return ShouldSerializeError() || ShouldSerializeFailure(); } } </code></pre> <p>If I have this class instance:</p> <pre><code>SerializeExample ex1 = new SerializeExample { ResultType = "Success" }; </code></pre> <p>Then, only this XML is serialized:</p> <pre><code><SerializeExample> <ResultType>Success</ResultType> </SerializeExample> </code></pre> <p>If I create this other class and serialize it:</p> <pre><code>SerializeExample ex2 = new SerializeExample { ResultType = "Error", Error = "Invalid data from user", Steps = new List<string>() }; </code></pre> <p>Then, this XML is generated.</p> <pre><code><SerializeExample> <ResultType>Error</ResultType> <Error>Invalid data from user</Error> <Steps /> </SerializeExample> </code></pre>

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