XmlSerialize a custom collection with an Attribute?

Collections generally don't make good places for extra properties. Both during serialization and in data-binding, they will be ignored if the item looks like a collection ( IList IEnumerable etc - depending on the scenario).

If you do encapsulate, as Marc Gravell suggests, the beginning of this post explains how to get your XML to look exactly like you describe.

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