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xml c# deserialization C#

I'm performance testing and I'm refactoring my project and I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me..... I'm currently working with an XML file which includes multiple namespaces, and I'm having trouble deserializing it correctly using C#. The XML looks like this: ```xml <root xmlns:ns1="http://example.com/ns1" xmlns:ns2="http://example.com/ns2"> <ns1:item> <ns1:value>Item 1</ns1:value> </ns1:item> <ns2:item> <ns2:value>Item 2</ns2:value> </ns2:item> </root> ``` I'm using the `XmlSerializer` class to deserialize this XML into a C# object. Here's what my C# class structure looks like: ```csharp [XmlRoot(Namespace = "http://example.com/ns1")] public class Root { [XmlElement("item", Namespace = "http://example.com/ns1")] public List<Item> Items1 { get; set; } [XmlElement("item", Namespace = "http://example.com/ns2")] public List<Item> Items2 { get; set; } } public class Item { [XmlElement("value")] public string Value { get; set; } } ``` When I attempt to deserialize the XML, I encounter an behavior stating that the element `item` is not recognized, which seems to suggest that the namespaces are not being handled correctly. I tried specifying the namespaces explicitly in the `XmlSerializer` constructor, but the behavior continues. ```csharp var xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Root), new XmlRootAttribute { ElementName = "root", Namespace = "http://example.com/ns1" }); var rootObject = (Root)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(new StringReader(xmlString)); ``` I've also tried using `XmlSerializerNamespaces` to define the namespaces, but that doesn't seem to resolve the scenario either. Can someone guide to understand how to properly deserialize this XML with multiple namespaces in C#? What am I missing here? Any tips on how to handle this scenario would be greatly appreciated. My team is using C# for this microservice. I'd really appreciate any guidance on this. I'm on macOS using the latest version of C#.