XML Deserialization design question

[Gary James]

I have a question about the methodology used to Serialize / Deserialize
objects using XML in .Net 2005 using the v2.0 framework.

Say, for example my application creates an instance of Object A, and and
instance of Object B. Then these two objects are then added to multiple
collections. Thus I have one instance of objects A & B, but multiple
references to each object instance in the multiple collections. Then I
serialize all the collections. And finally I Deserialize all the
collections.

The question is this: following deserialization, do I get back a single
instance of each object, with multiple references in the collections? Or do
I get back multiple instances of the object A and B types in the multiple
collections?

I can't seem to find any documentation that addresses this question. Any
suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Gary ...