I am trying to deserialize an non-standard XML array, returned by some sort of Perl web script, in a VB.NET client application.

Take for example, the following XML:
Code:
<MyObject>
  <...other fields...>
  <MyItems>
    <Item1>abcdefg</Item1>
    <Length1>7</Length1>
    <Item2>abcd</Item2>
    <Length2>4</Length2>
...