XML Deserialization with dynamic fields

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Say I have the following xml:

<rootelement>
    <childone>val1</childone>
    <childtwo>val2</childtwo>
    <childthree>val3</childthree>
</rootelement>

To deserialize it into an object I'd normally have something like this:

public class rootelement{
    public string childone,childtwo,childthree;
}

That all works, but now I want to find out if I can have the child node names stored in an array or something so I can manage my fields more easily, and use this array to populate the keys in a List of KeyValuePair eg:

string[] fieldnames={"childone","childtwo","childthree"};
List<KeyValuePair<string, string>> fields=new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>();
for(int i=0;i<fieldnames.Length;i++){
    fields.Add(new KeyValuePair<string,string>(fieldnames[i],""));
}

And the last step would be for deserialization to populate the values. It doesn't have to be a List of KeyValuePair specifically, anything that I could apply the same concept to would work. Is something like this possible? If so, please assist me with an example.

Thanks in advance.

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XML Deserialization with dynamic fields