OK. I'm trying to work on communicating with the Pivotal Tracker API, which only returns data in an XML format. I have the following XML that I'm trying to deserialize into my domain model.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<stories type="array" count="2" total="2">
  <story>
    <id type="integer">2909137</id>
    <project_id type="integer">68153</project_id>
    <story_type>bug</story_type>
    <url>http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/2909137</url>
    <current_state>unscheduled</current_state>
    <description></description>
    <name>Test #2</name>
    <requested_by>Anthony Shaw</requested_by>
    <created_at type="datetime">2010/03/23 20:05:58 EDT</created_at>
    <updated_at type="datetime">2010/03/23 20:05:58 EDT</updated_at>
  </story>
  <story>
    <id type="integer">2909135</id>
    <project_id type="integer">68153</project_id>
    <story_type>feature</story_type>
    <url>http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/2909135</url>
    <estimate type="integer">-1</estimate>
    <current_state>unscheduled</current_state>
    <description></description>
    <name>Test #1</name>
    <requested_by>Anthony Shaw</requested_by>
    <created_at type="datetime">2010/03/23 20:05:53 EDT</created_at>
    <updated_at type="datetime">2010/03/23 20:05:53 EDT</updated_at>
  </story>
</stories>

My 'story' object is created as follows:

public class story
{
     public int id { get; set; }
     public int estimate { get; set; }
     public int project_id { get; set; }


    public string story_type { get; set; }
    public string url { get; set; }
    public string current_state { get; set; }
    public string description { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string requested_by { get; set; }
    public string labels { get; set; }
    public string lighthouse_id { get; set; }
    public string lighthouse_url { get; set; }
    public string owned_by { get; set; }
    public string accepted_at { get; set; }
    public string created_at { get; set; }

    public attachment[] attachments { get; set; }
    public note[] notes { get; set; }
}

When I execute my deserialization code, I receive the following exception:

Exception:
   There is an error in XML document (2, 2).


Inner Exception:
   <stories xmlns=''> was not expected.

I can deserialize the individual stories just fine, I just cannot deserialize this xml into an array of 'story' objects

And my serialization code

var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(value);
var stream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
var deserializedObject = new XmlSerializer(typeof (story[])).Deserialize(stream)

Does anybody have any ideas?