deserialisation of multiple elements not working?

Question

Dear friends,

i have the following XSD:

<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
<xsd:element name="Persons">
 <xsd:complexType>
  <xsd:sequence>
   <xsd:element name="PersonFullName">
    <xsd:simpleType>
     <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
      <xsd:pattern value="[A-Z0-9]{3,50}"/>
     </xsd:restriction>
    </xsd:simpleType>
   </xsd:element>  
   <xsd:element name="PersonAliases" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="5"/>    
  </xsd:sequence>
 </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

Using XSD.exe i generate the following property for the PersonAliases:

<System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("PersonAliases", Form:=System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)>  _
Public Property PersonAliases() As String()
    Get
        Return Me.personAliasesField
    End Get

...

When i deserialise the XML into an object i don't get a value for person aliases.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

K