Im looking at implementing a fix in an XmlDeserializer to allow for element lists without a specific containing element.

The XmlDeserializer im basing off checks for a list object type but then it gets the container element im trying to figure out how to get around this and make it work both ways.

enter code here    var t = type.GetGenericArguments()[0];
var list = (IList)Activator.CreateInstance(type);

var container = GetElementByName(root, prop.Name.AsNamespaced(Namespace));
var first = container.Elements().FirstOrDefault();

var elements = container.Elements().Where(d => d.Name == first.Name);
PopulateListFromElements(t, elements, list);

prop.SetValue(x, list, null);

The XML im working with is from the google weather API (forecast_conditions elements)

<weather module_id="0" tab_id="0" mobile_row="0" mobile_zipped="1" row="0" section="0">
   <forecast_information>...</forecast_information>
   <current_conditions>...</current_conditions>
   <forecast_conditions>...</forecast_conditions>
   <forecast_conditions>...</forecast_conditions>
   <forecast_conditions>...</forecast_conditions>
</weather>

EDIT: Im looking at this as an update to the RESTsharp open source .net library