XML serialization - build a list of child elements of a certain type

I am brand new (day 2) to c# so I apologize ahead of time if my terminology is a bit off.

Consider the following XML and class models:

<Page label="Page 1.1">
    <Group label="Group 1.1.1"></Group>
    <Group label="Group 1.1.2"></Group>
    <Text label="Text 1.1.1"></Text>
    <Text label="Text 1.1.2"></Text>
</Page>

public class AbstractElementModel
{
    [XmlAttributeAttribute()]
    public string label;
}

[Serializable]
public class Page:AbstractElementModel
{
    [XmlArrayItem(typeof(Group)),
     XmlArrayItem(typeof(Text))]
    public AbstractElementModel[] content;
}

(Group and Text models not shown, for this example they are blank classes extending AbstractElementModel)

I would like to be able to push any instances of Group or Text into the content list. However, when the XML document is deserialized content is null. I did notice that it works if I structure the XML as follows:

<Page label="Page 1.1">
    <content>
        <Group label="Group 1.1.1"></Group>
        <Group label="Group 1.1.2"></Group>
        <Text label="Text 1.1.1"></Text>
        <Text label="Text 1.1.2"></Text>
    </content>
</Page>

However, I need to be able to deseralize the XML structure as shown in the first example开发者_运维百科.

What is the best way to acomplish this?

Thanks for your time!

edit

Updated XML structure to make the problem clearer.

Use XmlElement if you don't want a wrapper element:

public class Page:AbstractElementModel
{
    [XmlElement("Group", typeof(Group))]
    [XmlElement("Text", typeof(Text))]
    public AbstractElementModel[] content;
}

other notes:

• you don't need [Serializable]
• public fields are generally not recommended - a property would be preferred
• IMO a list would be better than an array here

Given that you may have multipule nodes of the same type under Page this should work.

[Serializable]
public class Page:AbstractElementModel
{
    [XmlArrayItem()]
    public Group[] Group;
    [XmlArrayItem()]
    public Text[] Text;
}