conditional xml serialization

[Carel]

Running into trouble conditioning what gets serialized by the XmlSerializer.

Case is as follows:

When a serialized element C is serialized under (as a child of) a specific other element P then I want the serializer to only serialize specific elements of C.

I know of ...Specified but found no way of achieving the above using it. Is there another way?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Regards

[Carel]

... seems I have to flatten and introduce id's for structuring so I can use XmlExclude, still it would be nice to have say a callback from the serializer that gave me structural information like 'parent element' that I could use to enable/disable output of some element, is that possible?

[Dormilich]

Hm, would be nice to know, what serializer (which language) you are talking about…

[Carel]

I am using C# and the XmlSerializer that comes with .Net. The introduction of identifiers replacing references solces the problem of the serializer serializing the instance more than once.