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    <p>I've got the following chunk of XML data:</p> <pre><code>&lt;ArrayOfRESTDataSource xmlns="http://SwitchKing.Common/Entities/RESTSimplified/2010/07" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt; &lt;RESTDataSource&gt; &lt;Description&gt;MyTest&lt;/Description&gt; &lt;Enabled&gt;true&lt;/Enabled&gt; &lt;/RESTDataSource&gt; &lt;/ArrayOfRESTDataSource&gt; </code></pre> <p><code>RESTDataSource</code> can occur 0-n times.</p> <p>And here's my classes:</p> <pre><code>[DataContract( Namespace = "http://SwitchKing.Common/Entities/RESTSimplified/2010/07" )] public class ArrayOfRESTDataSource { public RESTDataSource[] Data { set; get; } } [DataContract( Namespace = "http://SwitchKing.Common/Entities/RESTSimplified/2010/07" )] public class RESTDataSource { [DataMember] public bool Enabled { get; set; } [DataMember] public string Description { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>I read the above XML data from a server like this:</p> <pre><code>WebRequest client = WebRequest.Create( "http://server:80/datasources" ); using( StreamReader sr = new StreamReader( client.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()) ) { string xml = sr.ReadToEnd(); var response = ServiceStack.Text.XmlSerializer.DeserializeFromString&lt;ArrayOfRESTDataSource&gt;( xml ); } </code></pre> <p>My question is: What do I need to change or decorate <code>public RESTDataSource[] Data</code> with to get the deseralization to work for the array? Serializing single RESTDataSource items work just fine, its just the array I can't get to work.</p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> <p><em>Update 1</em></p> <p>As @mythz suggested, I updated my code to this, but response.Data is still null. What did I not understand?</p> <pre><code>[DataContract( Namespace = "http://SwitchKing.Common/Entities/RESTSimplified/2010/07" )] public class ArrayOfRESTDataSource { [DataMember] public DataSource Data { set; get; } } [CollectionDataContract( ItemName = "RESTDataSource" )] public class DataSource : List&lt;RESTDataSource&gt; { public DataSource() { } public DataSource( IEnumerable&lt;RESTDataSource&gt; collection ) : base( collection ) { } } </code></pre> <p><em>Update 2</em></p> <p>The solution is in @mythz answer below, but just for completeness/clarity: What I did wrong was to add another level in my DTOs - the top-level class <code>ArrayOfRESTDataSource</code> is the one that actually has the sub items in XML so it is that one that should be of a collection type.</p>
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