Deserialize Xml Object [C#]

[DimitrisV12]

Hello guys. I am working in an project and I want to deserialize a huge xml file from api. The problem is this:

I have this XML Snippet:

<effectiveTime xsi:type="IVL_TS">
<low nullFlavor="UNK"/>
<high nullFlavor="UNK"/>
</effectiveTime>

<effectiveTime operator="A" xsi:type="PIVL_TS">
<period unit="h" value="12"/>
</effectiveTime>

As you can see is the same but those have different xsi:type attribute.

Well I create two classes to deserialize those.

[XmlType(TypeName = "IVL_TS")]
public class effectiveTime
{
[XmlElement("low")]
public low low { get; set; }
[XmlElement("high")]
public high high { get; set; }
}

[XmlType(TypeName = "PIVL_TS")]
public class _effectiveTime
{
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName = "operator")]
public string _operator { get; set; }
[XmlElement]
public period period { get; set; }
}

Here is the problem i tried something like this:

[XmlArrayItem(Type = typeof(effectiveTime))]
[XmlArrayItem(Type = typeof(_effectiveTime))]
public object[] effectiveTime { get; set; }

But when I deserialize the object the count of array is 0. What can i do?

Best regards.

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