Generating Comment Property

[complacer]

Hello dear community,

we have a use case where we can't modify the XSD but need a way to store additional data not defined in the schema. XML comments would be a pragmatic vehicle for that.

Is there any plan to add a CLI option for generating a Comment property on each class to preserve XML comments (<!-- ... -->) during deserialization and serialization?

Thank you!

[mganss]

AFAICT there is no way to make XmlSerializer preserve XML comments. I see these possible options:

1. Even if you can't modify your upstream XSD, perhaps you can still feed a modified XSD to xscgen. Of course you'd need to keep the modified XSD in sync with the upstream XSD.
2. Use xscgen's MemberVisitor feature to inject additional properties during class generation. See https://github.com/mganss/XmlSchemaClassGenerator/blob/master/XmlSchemaClassGenerator.Tests/VisitorTests.cs