Associate Xml attribute with type

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Whoa, I'm hitting the techoff hard at the moment. (I'll get you all cake later.)

 

Well, I've inherited an xml document and want to read it into its specific types using XmlReader.ReadContentAsObject() and rely on .NET to*do its magic and convert things into the correct type.

 

Now, at the moment the XML elements have a "type" attribute which the document creators thought would be a great thing, and it close matches what you'd expect an XML type to be.

 

So for example:

 

true

 

but, of course, .Net has no comprehension of these types. Is there a simple way (in, for example a schema of which I have only the briefest knowledge) to essentially associate one of these "type" attributes with a proper XML type?

 

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