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Element array Deserialization calling Windows.NET

           Summary: Element array Deserialization calling Windows.NET
           Product: Axis
           Version: current (nightly)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Windows NT/2K
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Serialization/Deserialization
        AssignedTo: axis-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: cmarshall@infoclarus.com


I have a situation where I am attempting to call a Windows.NET service
that returns an array of complexType. A fragement from the WSDL is as follows:
 
- <s:element name="GetAllResponse">
- <s:complexType>
- <s:sequence>
  <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="GetAllResult"
type="s0:ArrayOfTimekeeper" /> 
  </s:sequence>
  </s:complexType>
  </s:element>
- <s:complexType name="ArrayOfTimekeeper">
- <s:sequence>
  <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Timekeeper"
nillable="true" type="s0:Timekeeper" /> 
  </s:sequence>
  </s:complexType>
- <s:complexType name="Timekeeper">
- <s:sequence>
  <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="tkinit" type="s:string" /> 
  <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="tksort" type="s:short" /> 
  <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="tklast" type="s:string" /> 

I would like to have the results returned as either Element or Element[] but
the current ElementDeserializer only returns the first instance of the 
innermost complexType (Timekeeper).  ElementDeserializer has the following
code:

                ArrayList children = msgElem.getChildren();
                if ( children != null ) {
                    msgElem = (MessageElement) children.get(0);
                    if ( msgElem != null )
                        value = msgElem.getAsDOM();
                }

which seem to be causing the problem.  I have implemented my own
deserializer by replacing this with:

                value = msgElem.getAsDOM();

and I get the results I am hoping for, a single Element with all the
returned data.  

Is this a bug, restriction or should I be approaching the problem
differently?