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    copied!<p>Here's a fictitious example of the problem I'm trying to solve. If I'm working in C#, and have XML like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;Cars&gt; &lt;Car&gt; &lt;StockNumber&gt;1020&lt;/StockNumber&gt; &lt;Make&gt;Nissan&lt;/Make&gt; &lt;Model&gt;Sentra&lt;/Model&gt; &lt;/Car&gt; &lt;Car&gt; &lt;StockNumber&gt;1010&lt;/StockNumber&gt; &lt;Make&gt;Toyota&lt;/Make&gt; &lt;Model&gt;Corolla&lt;/Model&gt; &lt;/Car&gt; &lt;SalesPerson&gt; &lt;Company&gt;Acme Sales&lt;/Company&gt; &lt;Position&gt; &lt;Salary&gt; &lt;Amount&gt;1000&lt;/Amount&gt; &lt;Unit&gt;Dollars&lt;/Unit&gt; ... and on... and on.... &lt;/SalesPerson&gt; &lt;/Cars&gt; </code></pre> <p>the XML inside SalesPerson can be very long, megabytes in size. I want to deserialize the tag, <strong>but</strong> not deserialize the SalesPerson XML element instead keeping it in raw form "for later on".</p> <p>Essentially I would like to be able to use this as a Objects representation of the XML.</p> <pre><code>[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute("Cars", Namespace = "", IsNullable = false)] public class Cars { [XmlArrayItem(typeof(Car))] public Car[] Car { get; set; } public Stream SalesPerson { get; set; } } public class Car { [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("StockNumber")] public string StockNumber{ get; set; } [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Make")] public string Make{ get; set; } [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Model")] public string Model{ get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>where the SalesPerson property on the Cars object would contain a stream with the raw xml that is within the &lt;SalesPerson&gt; xml element after being run through an XmlSerializer.</p> <p>Can this be done? Can I choose to only deserialize "part of" an xml document?</p> <p>Thanks! -Mike</p> <p>p.s. example xml stolen from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/364253/how-to-deserialize-xml-document">How to Deserialize XML document</a></p>
 

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