Aliasing explicit list type

Given:

class C

when serializing, one gets:

<C>
<list>
<string>foo</string>
<string>bar</string>
</list>
</C>

One can use an implicit collection to alias the item type, but there is no way to keep the collection explicit yet still alias the item type, i.e.:

<C>
<list>
<name>foo</name>
<name>bar</name>
</list>
</C>

There should be a way to do this (both via code an an annotation).