using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.IO;

using System.ComponentModel;

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// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41292970/xml-deserialize-to-same-object-different-element-names

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    public class Account

    {

        public Account() { this.AccountNodes = new List<AccountNode>(); }

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        [XmlIgnore]

        public List<AccountNode> AccountNodes { get; set; }

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        [Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]

        [XmlAnyElement]

        public XElement[] AccountNodesXml

        {

            get

            {

                if (AccountNodes == null)

                    return null;

                return AccountNodes.Select(a => new XElement((XName)a.Name, a.Value)).ToArray();

            }

            set

            {

                if (value != null)

                    AccountNodes = value.Select(e => new AccountNode { Name = e.Name.LocalName, Value = (string)e }).ToList();

            }

        }

    }

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    public class AccountNode

    {

        public String Name { get; set; }

        public String Value { get; set; }

    }

    class TestClass

    {

        static string GetXml()

        {

            var xml = @"<Account>

    <AccountNumber>12345</AccountNumber>

    <Balance>12.52</Balance>

    <LateFee>0</LateFee>

</Account>";

            return xml;

        }

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        public static void Test()

        {

            var xml = GetXml();

            Console.WriteLine("Original XML: ");

            Console.WriteLine(xml);

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            var account = xml.LoadFromXml<Account>();

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            var xml2 = account.GetXml(true);

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            Console.WriteLine("Deserialized and reserialized XML for {0}: ", account);

            Console.WriteLine(xml2);

            if (!XNode.DeepEquals(XElement.Parse(xml), XElement.Parse(xml2)))

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Old and new XML are NOT equivalent.");

                throw new InvalidOperationException("!XNode.DeepEquals(XElement.Parse(xml), XElement.Parse(xml2))");

            }

            else

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Old and new XML are equivalent.");

            }

        }

    }

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    public class Program

    {

        public static void Main()

        {

            TestClass.Test();

        }

    }

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    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);

            }

        }

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        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();

            }

        }

    }