deserialising system.object using xmlserialiser

Hi,
I want to deserialize the following class which has a object type of
member using xmlserialiser.The NamedValue.value can be any type of user
defined class/predefined types or single/two dimensional array.

public class NamedValue {

/// <remarks/>
public string name;

/// <remarks/>
///
public object value;
}

I am using XmlSerialiser to deserialise the xml. Although the class gets
deserialised but the representation of NamedValue.value is in the form of
XmlElement instead of long[] when the xml contains the array of long

xml fragement
==========

<name xsi:type="xsd:string">Missing information</name>
<value soapenc:arrayType="xsd:long[1]" xsi:type="soapenc:Array">
<value xsi:type="xsd:long">27148</value>
</value>

Is it possible to have a proper representation of NamedValue.value instead
of XmlElement.

--gaurav