Is there a way to make a serialized member to serialize as an attribute?

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Is there a way to make a serialized member to serialize as an attribute:

<Serializable> 
Public Class Person
    Public Property Name As String
End Class

I want than when this class is xml-serialized, it should produce:

<Person Name="John Doe" />

And what I mean is that instead of the Name property should be serialized as an element, it should be serialized as an xml attribute.

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