I’ve got this XML:

 <price currency="EUR">123.45</price>

I want to deserialise that onto a class with Currency and Value properties.

However, when I do that, I get an error about how [XmlText] has to be a string.

So, I’ve written this which lets me deserialise it:

[XmlRoot("price")]
public class Price
{
    [XmlAttribute("currency")]
    public string? Currency { get; init; }

    // Needed because you can't have a decimal in an XML element apparently
    // Unfortunately, that means I have to expose this
    [XmlText]
    public string? RawValue { private get; set; }

    [XmlIgnore]
    public decimal? Value
    {
        get => decimal.TryParse(RawValue, out decimal value) ? value : null;
        
        set => RawValue = value?.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
    }
}

Which I hate for obvious reasons.

Is there any way around this?