using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Linq;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.IO;

using System.Data;

using System.Runtime.Serialization;

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;

using System.IO.Compression;

​

    public class Program

    {

        public static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            string s = @"<?xml version =""1.0"" encoding=""utf-16""?>

    <ArrayOfSerializingTemplateItem xmlns:xsd=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"" xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance""> 

        <SerializingTemplateItem>

        </SerializingTemplateItem>

    </ArrayOfSerializingTemplateItem >";

            try

            {

                XmlReader reader = XmlWrapper.CreateXmlReaderObject(s);

                XmlSerializer sr = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<SerializingTemplateItem>));

                Object ob = sr.Deserialize(reader);

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                Console.WriteLine(ex);

                throw;

            }

            Console.ReadLine();

        }

    }

​

    public class XmlWrapper

    {

        public static XmlReader CreateXmlReaderObject(string sr)

        {

            byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sr);

            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);

            stream.Position = 0;

            XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();

            settings.ValidationType = ValidationType.None;

            settings.DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Ignore;

            return XmlReader.Create(stream, settings);

        }        

    }

​

    public class SerializingTemplateItem

    {

    }

​

​