Hi, cool project!

Consider these two types using serde (de)serialize:

use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct FooType {
    #[serde(rename = "a-list")]
    pub a_list: ListType,
}

#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize, Default)]
pub struct ListType{
    #[serde(default, rename = "$text")]
    pub content: Vec<String>
}

This creates xml such as <test><a-list>A B</a-list></test>.

Now consider this slight adaptation:

#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct BarType {
    #[serde(default, rename = "@a-list")]
    pub a_list: ListType,
}

I expect this to create xml such as <test a-list="A B"/>, but it fails with

Unsupported("cannot serialize struct ListType as an attribute or text content value")

I know that if I change ListType to simply

type ListType = Vec<String>

the second case works. But then, the first case does not serialize correctly: <test><a-list>A</a-list><a-list>B</a-list></test>

Is there a way to define a single ListType in such a way that both

• <test><a-list>A B</a-list></test>
• <test a-list="A B"/>

can be serialized?
Thanks a lot!!