Are all public read/write members serialized with XmlSerializer?

You can force a null property to be serialized in the output by setting IsNullable to true on the XmlElement attribute public class Example { XmlElement(IsNullable=true) public string Text { get; set; } } The Text property will now be serialized as Text xsi:nil="true On a side note the Serializable attribute is not needed if you are only doing XML serialization.

You can force a null property to be serialized in the output by setting IsNullable to true on the XmlElement attribute. Public class Example { XmlElement(IsNullable=true) public string Text { get; set; } } The Text property will now be serialized as . On a side note the Serializable attribute is not needed if you are only doing XML serialization.

Indeed, they are not serialized if they are null.

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