I am using XmlSerializer to serialize a C# object that contains a decimal to a string of xml
eg
AnObject.ADecimalValue
I am finding the precision is varying in particular even if I explicitly round as below some values are getting output with four values after the point eg 12564.39 gets output as 12564.3900
AnObject.ADecimalValue = decimal.Round(AnObject.ADecimalValue, 2);
The serializing code is below.
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AnObject));
using (StringWriter writer = new StringWriter())
{
serializer.Serialize(writer, source);
string result = writer.ToString();
return result;
}
How can I ensure only two values are output out after the decimal point
Could you implement IXmlSerializable
to redefine how you serialise your object?
Documentation here and a good breakdown of how to implment it here .
Then there's a post here by someone with a similar (but not related) issue to yours. You could round your decimal correctly and see if that works, if not then you can write it out as a string.
I don't think that rounding a floating point number can help this. The serializer converts the number to string according to it's own rules. The best you can do is to introduce a new string property, and format the number in that and serialize it instead of the original number.
More on the topic, similar issue: Can you specify format for XmlSerialization of a datetime?
Here's how I resolved a similar problem and it's working perfectly for me.
private decimal price;
[XmlElement(DataType="decimal")]
public string Price
{
get { return price.ToString("c"); }
set { price = Convert.ToDecimal(value); }
}
In my case, I converted it to currency, but you can use price.ToString("0.00") to convert the XML element to decimal with 2 zeros.
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