How to serialize a collection of base type and see the concrete types in easy to read XML

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Published on 2010-04-10T01:03:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 3:03 UTC
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I have a List which is populated with objects of various concrete types which subclass BaseType

I am using the WCF DataContractSerializer

<Children>
    <BaseType xmlns:d3p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Tasks"
              i:type="d3p1:ConcreteTypeA"></BaseType>
    <BaseType xmlns:d3p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Tasks"
              i:type="d3p1:ConcreteTypeB"></BaseType>
</Children>

Is there any way to get this to generate

<Children>
    <ConcreteTypeA/>
    <ConcreteTypeB/>
</Children>

?

The real goal is to let users generate some XML to load into memory, and the users are of a skill level that asking them for the original XML is not going to be successful.

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