Is it possible to coerce string values in xml to bool?

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Published on 2010-03-24T13:07:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 13:23 UTC
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Let's suppose I have xml like this one:

<Server Active="No">
    <Url>http://some.url</Url>
</Server>

C# class looks like this:

public class Server
{
   [XmlAttribute()]
   public string Active { get; set; }

   public string Url { get; set; }
}

Is it possible to change Active property to type bool and have XmlSerializer coerce "Yes" "No" to bool values?

Edit: Xml is received, I cannot change it. So, in fact, i'm interested in deserialization only.

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