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XML serialization / deserialization issue containing CDATA attribute

I need to deserialize / serialize the xml file below:

<items att1="val">
<item att1="image1.jpg">
         <![CDATA[<strong>Image 1</strong>]]>
</item>
<item att1="image2.jpg">
         <![CDATA[<strong>Image 2</strong>]]>
</item>     
</items>

my c # classes:

[Serializable]
[XmlRoot("items")]    
public class RootClass
{
  [XmlAttribute("att1")]
  public string Att1 {set; get;}

  [XmlElement("item")]  
  public Item[] ArrayOfItem {get; set;}
}

  [Serializable]
public class Item
{
    [XmlAttribute("att1")]
    public string Att1 { get; set; }

    [XmlText]
    public string Content { get; set; }
}

and everything works almost perfectly, but after deserialization in place

<![CDATA[<strong>Image 1</strong>]]>

I have

&lt;strong&gt;Image 1&lt;/strong&gt;

I tried to use XmlCDataSection as a type for the Content property, but this type is not valid with the XmlText attribute. Unfortunately, I cannot change the structure of XML.

How can I solve this problem?

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this should help

    private string content;

    [XmlText]
    public string Content
    {
        get { return content; }
        set { content = XElement.Parse(value).Value; }
    }
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XmlCDataSection

public XmlCDataSection ProjectXml { get; set; }

projectXml xml

ProjectXml = new XmlDocument().CreateCDataSection(projectXml);

, ()

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<MessageBase xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="Message_ProjectStatusChanged">
  <ID>131</ID>
  <HandlerName>Plugin</HandlerName>
  <NumRetries>0</NumRetries>
  <TriggerXml><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><TmData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" Version="9.0.0" Date="2012-01-31T15:46:02.6003105" Format="1" AppVersion="10.2.0" Culture="en-US" UserID="0" UserRole=""><PROJECT></PROJECT></TmData>]]></TriggerXml>
  <MessageCreatedDate>2012-01-31T20:28:52.4843092Z</MessageCreatedDate>
  <MessageStatus>0</MessageStatus>
  <ProjectId>0</ProjectId>
  <UserGUID>8CDF581E44F54E8BAD60A4FAA8418070</UserGUID>
  <ProjectGUID>5E82456F42DC46DEBA07F114F647E969</ProjectGUID>
  <PriorStatus>0</PriorStatus>
  <NewStatus>3</NewStatus>
  <ActionDate>0001-01-01T00:00:00</ActionDate>
</MessageBase>
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Most of the solutions presented in StackOverflow work only for serialization, and not for deserialization. This one will do the job, and if you need to get / set a value from your code, use the added PriceUrlByString property that I added.

    private XmlNode _priceUrl;
    [XmlElement("price_url")]
    public XmlNode PriceUrl
    {
        get
        {
            return _priceUrl;
        }
        set
        {
            _priceUrl = value;
        }
    }

    [XmlIgnore]
    public string PriceUrlByString
    {
        get
        {
            // Retrieves the content of the encapsulated CDATA
            return _priceUrl.Value;
        }

        set
        {
            // Encapsulate in a CDATA XmlNode
            XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
            this._priceUrl = xmlDocument.CreateCDataSection(value);
        }
    }
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