Question on having operators as values in ENUM in C#

I have a configuration XML file. some nodes are used for computation purpose and I plan to tore the values like below

<OPERATION>&GT;=</OPERATION> <!-- GREATER THAN OR EQUAL --> <VALUE>1</VALUE>
<OPERATION>&LT;=</OPERATION> <!-- LESSER THAN OR EQUAL --> <VALUE>1</VALUE>

I use this XML in my C# cla开发者_如何学Pythonss. I was wondering if i can have an ENUM for these operators? Is this possible?

Cheers, Karthik

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Assuming you're using XML serialization, you can try to use the XmlEnum attribute:

public enum Operation
{
    [XmlEnum(">")]
    GreaterThan,
    [XmlEnum("<")]
    LessThan,
    ...
}

I'm not sure how it will behave with these specific characters, though... (I just tried, it works fine)

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EDIT

If you're using Linq to XML, you can just decode the character into an enum value by calling a method from within your query:

Operation DecodeOperation(string s)
{
    switch(s)
    {
        case ">":
            return Operation.GreaterThan;
        case "<":
            return Operation.LessThan;
        ...
        default:
            return Operation.Unknown; // or throw exception...
    }
}