using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.Xml;

using System.IO;

using System.Diagnostics;

using System.Collections.ObjectModel;

using System.Threading;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.Reflection;

using System.Data;

using System.Xml.Schema;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

using System.Net;

using System.Xml.XPath;

using System.Globalization; 

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

using System.Collections;

​

    [XmlRoot(ElementName = "author")]

    public class Author

    {

        [XmlAnyElement("name")]

        public XmlElement NameElement { get; set; }

        [XmlIgnore]

        public string Name

        {

            get

            {

                return NameElement == null ? null : NameElement.InnerXml;

            }

            set

            {

                if (value == null)

                    NameElement = null;

                else

                {

                    var element = new XmlDocument().CreateElement("name");

                    element.InnerXml = value;

                    NameElement = element;

                }

            }

        }

    }

​

    [XmlRoot(ElementName = "book")]

    public class Book

    {

        [XmlElement(ElementName = "author")]

        public Author Author { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute(AttributeName = "name")]

        public string Name { get; set; }

    }

​

    [XmlRoot(ElementName = "books")]

    public class Books

    {

        [XmlElement(ElementName = "book")]

        public List<Book> Book { get; set; }

    }

​

    class TestClass

    {

        static string GetXml()

        {

            var xml = @"<books>

<book name=""Book-1"">

<author>

<name>Author-1<ref>1</ref></name>

</author>

</book>

<book name=""Book-2"">

<author>

<name>Author-1<ref>1</ref></name>

</author>

</book>

</books>";

            return xml;

        }

​

        internal static void Test()

        {

            var xml = GetXml();

​

            var books = xml.LoadFromXML<Books>();

​

            var names = books.Book.Select(b => b.Author.Name).ToArray();

            Console.WriteLine("Deserialized name strings: ");

            Console.WriteLine(String.Join("\n", names));

            var reserializedXML = books.GetXml(true);

            Console.WriteLine("Re-serialized XML: ");

            Console.WriteLine(reserializedXML);

        }       

    }

​

    public class Program

    {

        public static void Main()

        {

            TestClass.Test();

        }

    }

​

    public static class XmlSerializationHelper

    {

        public static T LoadFromXML<T>(this string xmlString)

        {

            using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xmlString))

            {

                return (T)new XmlSerializer(typeof(T)).Deserialize(reader);

            }

        }

​

        public static string GetXml<T>(this T obj, bool omitStandardNamespaces = false)

        {

            XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = null;

            if (omitStandardNamespaces)

            {

                ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

                ns.Add("", ""); // Disable the xmlns:xsi and xmlns:xsd lines.

            }           

            using (var textWriter = new StringWriter())

            {

                var settings = new XmlWriterSettings() { Indent = true }; // For cosmetic purposes.

                using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(textWriter, settings))

                    new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType()).Serialize(xmlWriter, obj, ns);

                return textWriter.ToString();

            }

        }

    }