In this case, I have to pass a complex object, and I don't have the option of using a binary format due to the software specs....

I am using C# in VS2005 .Net, with a service which passes data to a proxy using a soap message. If all of the instance variables are strong typed, I have no problem, but I need to pass an instance variable which is held as an object. When I get the object in the proxy, it is an XmlNode[] with 2 elementsXmlNode[0] is an XmlAttribute, and XmlNode[1] is an XmlText. The XmlAttribute contains the correct information about the data type, and the XmlText...