XML Serializer - Deserializer. No XSD involved.

xml-to-object.cs

protected override void WriteRequest(object data, Stream stream)
		{
			var serializer = SerializerHelper.Get(data.GetType());
			var ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] { new XmlQualifiedName("", "") }); //strip all default namespaces.
			var settings = new XmlWriterSettings { Encoding = new UTF8Encoding(false), OmitXmlDeclaration = false };
			using (var xw = XmlTextWriter.Create(stream, settings))
			{
				if (settings.OmitXmlDeclaration)
				{
					//'encoding' in the xml declaration used to be forced to all-caps.  As far as I can tell, there's no reason for it.
					xw.WriteRaw("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\">");
				}
				serializer.Serialize(xw, data, ns);
				xw.WriteRaw("<EOF>");
			}
		}

protected override T ReadResponse<T>(Stream stream)
		{
		    XmlTextReader reader = null;
            //Note: XmlTextReader likes to dispose the stream, so make sure you don't need it anymore. (Logs still work though)
			//		Also, I'm not 100% sure XmlTextReader needs to be disposed at all if the base stream is handled elsewhere.
			//		Probably need to look into it.
		    try
		    {
		        reader = new XmlTextReader(stream);
		        reader.MoveToContent();
		        XmlReader sub = reader.ReadSubtree(); //Read just the root element, not the subsequent <EOF>
				XmlSerializer serializer = SerializerHelper.Get(typeof(T));
		        return (T) serializer.Deserialize(sub);
		    }
		    }