Deserializing partial XML segments into classes generated by XSD.exe

I have a numb开发者_运维问答er of XSD files that define the schema for some XML. I generated classes using the XSD.EXE tool and added this to my project.

The schema itself has a number of nested types that deserialize nicely, until I get to a segment defined like this:

    <xs:element name="SamplePayload" type="xs:anyType"/>

This leaves me with the raw System.Xml.XmlNode. I know the specific type/class this section should be deserialized as (it is specified in the XML itself and isn't static - it can be any of a few different types). I was hoping that I could just call Deserialize in the XmlSerializer class, passing in this segment, but of course it's not really valid XML on its own.

Is there an easy way I can load this segment into my classes without having to manually parse this stuff myself (this segment represents another fairly complex set of XML so that would be really painful).

I have no control over the XSD files so I can't just change them.

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The easiest way that I can think of is to write a preprocessor stage that simply replaces all instances of the string xs:anyType with your desired type.

You could also modify the generated classes to do the conversion on the fly.