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Asked: 2026-05-16T06:36:57+00:00

I’ve got an XSD schema which I’ve generated a class for using xsd.exe, and

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I’ve got an XSD schema which I’ve generated a class for using xsd.exe, and I’m trying to use XmlSerializer.Deserialize to create an instance of that class from an XML file that is supposed to conform to the XSD schema. Unfortunately the XML file has some extra elements that the schema is not expecting, which causes a System.InvalidOperationException to be thrown from Deserialize.

I’ve tried adding <xs:any> elements to my schema but this doesn’t seem to make any difference.

My question is: is there any way to get XmlSerializer.Deserialize to ignore these extra elements?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think there is an option to do this. You either have to fix the schema or manually modify the code generated by xsd.exe to allow the XML to be deserialized. You can also try to open the XML document + schema in Visual Studio or any other XML editor with schema support to either fix the schema or the XML document.

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