Trouble with XML Deserialization into XSD generated classes

Question

I have a rather detailed xml file. Below is the top level nodes (I have included the ellipse as the lower level nodes are all well formed and properly filled with data):

Answer 1

XSD.EXE is a good start - but it's far from perfect. Also, based on the XML you provided, XSD.EXE can't always decide for sure whether something is a single instance of an object, or an open-ended array of objects.

This seems to be the case for your two elements - Application.Lease and Application.CashFlow. How are they defined in the generated XSD file? Does that make sense to you? Quite possibly, you'd have to add a little hints, such as:

for an optional property, that's zero or one occurences only. Things like that are really hard for the xsd.exe tool to figure out based on just a single XML sample file.

Marc