XML to IEnumerable

Question

Is there a way to Take a given XML file and convert (preferably using C# Generics) it into a Concrete Ienumerable list of T where T is my concrete class

So for example

Answer 1

Given the following types:

public interface IFruit
{
    String name { get; set; }
    Int32 id { get; set; }
}

public class Fruit : IFruit
{
    public String name { get; set; }
    public Int32 id { get; set; }
}

I think that you could do something like this:

    static IEnumerable GetSomeFruit(String xml)
        where T : IFruit, new()
    {
        return XElement.Parse(xml)
            .Elements("fruit")
            .Select(f => new T {
                name = f.Element("name").Value,
                id = Int32.Parse(f.Element("id").Value)
            });
    }

Which you would call like this:

IEnumerable fruit = GetSomeFruit(yourXml);