DateTime deserialization does not work properly.

[sukhrobkhakimov]

This works:

<property name="dateOfBirth" type="DateTime" serialized-name="dateOfBirth" />

This doesn't work:

<property name="dateOfBirth" type="DateTime<'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO'>" serialized-name="dateOfBirth" />

Even though these two statements are equal, the second one is not working. Weird!
Error: [FATAL] StartTag: invalid element name

[sukhrobkhakimov]

There is another issue. Even though I use the first one (the working one) and provide an invalid format like this:

{
    "dateOfBirth": "2013-07-21"
}

This is resulting 500 Internal Server Error. But, I expect it to be null if the format is invalid and show a friendly validation error to a user.

[sukhrobkhakimov]

It seems I have to use an alternative format when using these "<" or ">" characters. Like this:

<property name="dateOfBirth">
    <type><![CDATA[DateTime<'Y-m-d\TH:i:sO'>]]></type>
</property>