From 795b9e3a46866e4f3aaf4f60781eed171df1d599 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Ma <jack4it@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:33:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Adds support of XmlElement as one of the allowed objectType

---
 Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Converters/XmlNodeConverter.cs | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Converters/XmlNodeConverter.cs b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Converters/XmlNodeConverter.cs
index 438bb0f1..b1105ec6 100644
--- a/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Converters/XmlNodeConverter.cs
+++ b/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Converters/XmlNodeConverter.cs
@@ -1431,9 +1431,9 @@ namespace Newtonsoft.Json.Converters
 #if !(DOTNET || PORTABLE)
             if (typeof(XmlNode).IsAssignableFrom(objectType))
             {
-                if (objectType != typeof(XmlDocument))
+                if (objectType != typeof(XmlDocument) && objectType != typeof(XmlElement))
                 {
-                    throw new JsonSerializationException("XmlNodeConverter only supports deserializing XmlDocuments");
+                    throw new JsonSerializationException("XmlNodeConverter only supports deserializing XmlDocuments or XmlElement");
                 }
 
                 XmlDocument d = new XmlDocument();
@@ -1477,6 +1477,11 @@ namespace Newtonsoft.Json.Converters
             }
 #endif
 
+            if (objectType == typeof(XmlElement))
+            {
+                return document.DocumentElement.WrappedNode;
+            }
+            
             return document.WrappedNode;
         }