I would assume that I am not the only one that who was the need to deserialize an object into an exsiting one in a database. Typical scenario is an object retrieved from the db, send to an UI client, the client updates some data, send it back and now I want to UPDATE the object on the server.

It's bascially simple, all what is needed i the ability to pass a custom attribute in the root node fro the id and the ability to register a cusom delegate which does the object instantiation.

Is there ant support for something like this ?

Joe