Deserialize XML - Ignore Element - HowTo?

Question

Hello

 

I have a XML, like this(there could be many more Message elements):

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<response>
    <Count>2Count>
    <Messages>
        <Message>
            <Smstat>0Smstat>
            <Index>40005Index>
            <Phone>+4xxxxxxPhone>
            <Content>Test 2Content>
            <Date>2019-12-08 18:13:35Date>
            <Sca>Sca>
            <SaveType>4SaveType>
            <Priority>0Priority>
            <SmsType>1SmsType>
        Message>
        <Message>
            <Smstat>1Smstat>
            <Index>40004Index>
            <Phone>+4xxxxxx>
            <Content>Test 1Content>
            <Date>2019-12-08 18:13:30Date>
            <Sca>Sca>
            <SaveType>4SaveType>
            <Priority>0Priority>
            <SmsType>1SmsType>
       </Message>
    </Messages>
</response>

I'd like to deserialize it, I came up with this code:

[Serializable()]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRoot("Messsages")]
    public class Messsages
    {
        [XmlArray("Messsages")]
        [XmlArrayItem("Message", typeof(Message))]
        public Message[] Car { get; set; }
    }

[Serializable()]
    public class Message
    {
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("Smstat")]
        public int Smstat { get; set; }

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("Index")]
        public int Index { get; set; }

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("Phone")]
        public string Phone { get; set; }

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("Content")]
        public string Content { get; set; }

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("Date")]
        public string Date { get; set; }

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("sca")]
        public string sca { get; set; }

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("SaveType")]
        public string SaveType { get; set; }

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("Priority")]
        public string Priority { get; set; }

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElement("SmsType")]
        public string SmsType { get; set; }
    }

Messsages[] messages = null;
            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Message[]));

            using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
            {
                messages = (Messsages[])serializer.Deserialize(response.GetResponseStream());
            }

If I do it like this I get an InvalidOperationException telling me that the xml doesn't match due to the "response"

 

If I have a look on my XML the Messages are inside "" - so far it makes sense.

 

My question now is, how can I "ignore" that "response"? It is unneeded information for me and I just like to finally have only the data that I defined in the two data classes above.

 

Is there some ignore flag or how could I achieve that?

 

Thank you for your help!