Vista - Serialization of DataContract with Unwrapped Array

I am having a problem getting a data contract to serialize correctly and I
haven't been able to come up with a solution yet.



Basically, I have the following Xml Schema that clients are sending to my
WCF Service as pure Xml:



http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency...proved/cap.xsd



The method that my service implements looks like this:



[OperationContract(IsOneWay = true)]

[WebInvoke(BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, RequestFormat =
WebMessageFormat.Xml, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml)]

void PostCapAlert(Alert message);



where 'Alert' is my DataContract that matches the aforementioned schema.
Please bear with me as I will try to provide as many details as possible
without confusing the question.



Using fiddler, I send the following xml message to the service-method above:



<alert>

<identifier>43b080713727</identifier>
<sender>hsas@xxxxxx</sender>
<sent>2003-04-02T14:39:01-05:00</sent>
<status>Actual</status>
<msgType>Alert</msgType>
<scope>Public</scope>
<info>
<category>Security</category>
<event>Homeland Security Advisory System Update</event>
<urgency>Immediate</urgency>
<severity>Severe</severity>
<certainty>Likely</certainty>
<senderName>U.S. Government, Department of Homeland Security</senderName>
<headline>Homeland Security Sets Code ORANGE</headline>
<description>The Department of Homeland Security has elevated the Homeland
Security Advisory System threat level to ORANGE / High in response to
intelligence which may indicate a heightened threat of
terrorism.</description>
<instruction>A High Condition is declared when there is a high risk of
terrorist attacks. In addition to the Protective Measures taken in the
previous Threat Conditions, Federal departments and agencies should consider
agency-specific Protective Measures in accordance with their existing
plans.</instruction>
<web>http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29</web>
- <parameter>
<valueName>HSAS</valueName>
<value>ORANGE</value>
</parameter>
- <resource>
<resourceDesc>Image file (GIF)</resourceDesc>
<uri>http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/getAdvisoryImage</uri>
</resource>
- <area>
<areaDesc>U.S. nationwide and interests worldwide</areaDesc>
</area>
</info>
</alert>

Almost everything gets deserialized correctly except for the unwrapped
arrays (like the 'info' element). To troubleshoot the issue I took data
from an existing instance of the 'Alert' DataContract and serialized it into
xml. The resulting xml document is this:

<alert xmlns="urnasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.1"
xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<addresses i:nil="true" />
<code i:nil="true"
xmlns:a="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays" />
<identifier>43b080713727</identifier>
<incidents i:nil="true" />
- <info>
- <a:AlertInfo>
<a:area i:nil="true" />
<a:audience i:nil="true" />
<a:category i:nil="true" />
<a:certainty>Likely</a:certainty>
<a:contact>test</a:contact>
<a:description>test description</a:description>
<a:effective>0001-01-01T00:00:00</a:effective>
<a:event>lalalala</a:event>
<a:eventCode i:nil="true" />
<a:expires>0001-01-01T00:00:00</a:expires>
<a:headline i:nil="true" />
<a:instruction i:nil="true" />
<a:language>en-US</a:language>
<anSet>0001-01-01T00:00:00</anSet>
<aarameter i:nil="true" />
<a:resource i:nil="true" />
<a:responseType i:nil="true" />
<a:senderName i:nil="true" />
<a:severity>Extreme</a:severity>
<a:urgency>Immediate</a:urgency>
<a:web i:nil="true" />
</a:AlertInfo>
</info>
<msgType>Alert</msgType>
<note i:nil="true" />
<references i:nil="true" />
<restriction i:nil="true" />
<scope>Public</scope>
<sender>hsas@xxxxxx</sender>
<sent>2003-04-02T15:39:01-04:00</sent>
<source i:nil="true" />
<status>Actual</status>
</alert>

As you can see, my problem is that the 'info[]' array is being treated like
a collection and thus is being wrapped with the <info></info> tag following
by each one of the items in the array.

My question is how can make the serialization use a new <info></info> tag
for each item in the array as the previous xsd schema requires?

Thanks for your time.

-sm