No, and I have certainly coded similar serialisations. For example I have a 
user class that contains an ArrayList of Address objects. You just need to 
use the correct attributes on the members.
I will go and dig out the code.


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"sh" <shamada@p...> wrote in message 
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> It can't cope with the following. Is this an Array of ArrayLists?
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>  <ArrayOfOrder xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://aaa.com/">
>   <Order>
>     <OrderNo>505913</OrderNo>
>     <Carrier>WC</Carrier>
>     <Rush>false</Rush>
>     <Pack>true</Pack>
>   </Order>
>   <Order>
>     <OrderNo>505983</OrderNo>
>     <Carrier>PIT</Carrier>
>     <Rush>false</Rush>
>     <Pack>true</Pack>
>   </Order>
>   <Order>
>     <OrderNo>506017</OrderNo>
>     <Carrier>NEP</Carrier>
>     <Rush>false</Rush>
>     <Pack>true</Pack>
>   </Order>
> </ArrayOfOrder>
>
> If it is, is there a way around it?
>
> Joe Fawcett wrote:
>>
>>
>> "sh" <shamada@p...> wrote in message 
>> news:Qd6dnaeCZcwbAfbVnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@e......
>>> I have a Web Service which returns an ArrayList. According to 
>>> http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/asmxandxml/thread/9b6c1f9d-7021-437e-8bc0-b3e9bcfe834e/
>>> Deserialize won't work on an ArrayList.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions how to get around this?
>> It can serialise/deserialise an ArrayList. It cannot cope with an Array 
>> of ArrayLists.
>>
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