DataContractSerializer: preserve string member that happens to be raw xml?

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Published on 2010-06-01T15:00:20Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 15:03 UTC
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I'm a little inexperienced with the DataContract paradigm, and I'm running into a deserialization problem. I have a field that's a string, but it contains xml and it's not being deserialized correctly. I have a feeling that it's because the DCS is treating it as input to the serializer and not as an opaque string object.

Is there some way to mark a DataMember in code to say "This thing is a string, don't treat its contents as xml" similar to XmlIgnore?

Thanks!

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