Xml Serilization / Deserilization Array quesiton

[Jason McBurney]

I have an interface with a client that is been in production for many years, and I would like to alter the xml parsing system that handles this message. Since I may have 4 different StatusTypes I desire to have an array of the these items, however, they are not in a nice collection element that will make deserlization simple, like all of the examples on the internet that I could find. In the code below, I was hoping to get all of these items in MysticalList. Obviously, my example does not work ... How can I get my entity to work with a simple list?

<xsd:complexType name="requestRailStatus">
    <xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:element name="TrainID" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
        <xsd:element name="BeginTimePeriod" type="xsd:dateTime" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
        <xsd:element name="EndTimePeriod" type="xsd:dateTime" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
        <xsd:element name="StatusType" type="railStatusOptions" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="4" />
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:attribute name="timestamp" type="xsd:dateTime" use="required" />
    <xsd:attribute name="messageId" type="xsd:unsignedInt" use="required" />
</xsd:complexType>

<xsd:simpleType name="railStatusOptions">
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
        <xsd:enumeration value="ActualTimeOfArrival" />
        <xsd:enumeration value="ActualTimeOfWorking" />
        <xsd:enumeration value="ActualTimeOfCompletion" />
        <xsd:enumeration value="ActualTimeOfDeparture" />
    </xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>

public partial class requestRailStatus : EntityBase
{
public string TrainID { get; set; }
public System.DateTime BeginTimePeriod { get; set; }
public System.DateTime EndTimePeriod { get; set; }

    \[XmlElement("timestamp")\]
    public System.DateTime TimeStamp { get; set; }

    \[XmlElement("messageId")\]
    public uint MessageId { get; set; }

    \[XmlArray\]
    public List<railStatusOpti

[BobJanova]

You called the property StatusType, not MysticalList, in the XSD. Also, I think you mean [XmlAttribute] not [XmlElement].

[Jason McBurney]

If I had only "StatusType" I would agree with you, however I have 4, I want all 4 of them to be placed in the single array...

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