Hi, Does anyone know any good tools for performing a side by side comparison of 2 xml documents on an element by element and attribute by attribute basis. Thanks Donal ...more >>

Hi, I am doing some work with the XmlDocument class for loading and saving files and I notice that the save call is writing out the empty element in the following format <element /> - is this formatting possible to control? ie. get it to write out <element></element>. Thanks Donal ...more >>

Hi, I have a collection class where I've implemeneted the ICollection Interface. Here is a small code segment. public class PageList : ICollection, IComparer, IEnumerable, IList { protected ArrayList _pages; public PageList() { _pages = new ArrayList(); } #regi...more >>

Hi, I think I may have a slight encoding problem with what I am doing. I have a test console app that takes an xml document and splits it into a number of smaller xml documents. First thing I do is clone the input document. At the moment I am just saving this document and when I do a wind...more >>

Sorry if slightly off-topic, but I have asked / researched many other places already, maybe someone here can help? MSIE has a useful (for users applications) feature of performing XSLT transformations if a stylesheet is specified in the XML file, e.g., within the data file: <?xml versio...more >>

I'd like to know if there is support in .NET to somehow "flatten" a nested XML schema. Here is the situation: Currently I have code that can validate nested XML against a schema. The XML is generated by using a DataSet. Now I want to generate the XML as non-nested from the DataSet by settin...more >>

I prefer to use stored procedures over having sql statements sitting in my ..NET code. My problem is I can not figure out how get .NET to understand there are multiple recordsets coming back. Each of the recordsets is returning xml data and if called individually would be called as : Dim m...more >>

Our ASP.NET (C#) application accepts form entry and saves=20 inputed data in XML. We are finding that users are sometimes cutting and=20 pasting special characters (from MS Word) into these=20 forms. The data is saved successfuly, but when the XML is=20 later read the following error is enco...more >>

I'm embarking on a c# based project in which I would like to make use of a lot of XML including database access and using hte xml and .net tools as a coding shortcut. What I'm trying to understand at the moment is how to use xsd.exe and result ..cs files to mange the xml. First question. ...more >>

Is there a quick and easy way to convert a DTD into C# objects / interfaces? I realize this can be done with schema, but I have been given the DTD's as a requirement. Thank you....more >>

I have an XSLTransformation question I hope someone can help me with. I am trying to program this using VB.Net. I currently have a VB6.0 application which I am converting into VB.Net. The last piece of code I have to convert is an XML transformation. What I am trying to do is take two sting ...more >>

I have an XML document and an XSLT transformation sheet. My first issue = is that my XML file won't load into the XPathDocument object. However, = when I use an obsolete transformation method where I specify the XML = input file and output file, I get the same error. The error is: An unhand...more >>

Hi Is it possible to initiate a windows service from a webservice (possible create a web service listener??) Any ideas or examples? Thanks Carelo...more >>

I have been running some tests with regards to xsl:include and xsl:import with the same results on both and I am wondering if someone can explain this behavior to me! First off the xslt file is being loaded as in dim myXSLT as new XslTransform() myXSLT.load("scripts/clnt.home.body.xslt") ...more >>

I am having trouble writing an XPath query that deals with namespaces. I've see the documentation that says that I have to use a XmlNamespaceManager and qualify my queries such that they match up with the definitions added to the XmlNamespacemanager, but I want to write a query that pulls all of...more >>

This is so silly I must be doing something wrong! I need to insert (using VB.NET) a new node in a DOM; node has a namespace. I first create, under programme, basic structure, starting thus: <rdf:RDF xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syn...more >>

I have 3 individual ASP.NET applications that make up the overall web application. Each of these websites share some common styles, scripts and xslt files. These are all placed in a single directory structure then in IIS each .NET application has the virtual directory called shared created. ...more >>

"Documenting the Future" XML Europe takes place 18-21 April at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam. XML Europe 2004 provides the premier European forum for the XML community, spanning the worlds of electronic business, publishing, the Internet, e-government, software and open standards development. T...more >>

Not sure if this is the correct group to be posting this at but here goes. I am in the MSDN Library and doing the step-by-step instructions on the "Walkthrough: Creating a Distributed Application" and I appear to be a lost at step 5 in the section titled "To create an ASP.NET Web Service ...more >>

Has anyone successfully been able to use an XmlValidatingReader (Framework 1.1) to validate documents against XML Schemas that haven't been added to the XmlValidatingReader.Schemas collection first? e.g. I have the following XML document, and I want to validate it. <doc xmlns="my-first-namsp...more >>

Hi, We are serializing objects to an xmlfile that is validated against a schema. For this schema the elements are serialized in the wrong sequence. Does anyone know how I can let the serializer sequence the object members in the order required by the schema? thx Patrick De block ...more >>

When creating a function in xpath with IXsltContextFunction, if the return type is nodeset, what do you actually return from the Invoke function? A XmlNodeList? XPathNodeIterator? public System.Xml.XPath.XPathResultType ReturnType {get{ return System.Xml.XPath.XPathResultType.NodeSet; }}...more >>

I'm looking to get noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute from the following Xml file. Whats the most efficient way to do this using the XmlDocument class in c#? <?xml version="1.0"?> <IPDRDoc xmlns="http://www.ipdr.org/namespaces/ipdr" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xs...more >>

I have a merged dataset that contains xml read from SQL Server. I need to place the data into an XPathDocument. I can do the following: mydataset.writeXML("mydata.xml") dim xpdoc as new XPathDocument("mydata.xml") Problem is it seem rather redundent to write data currently in memory to ...more >>

Hi, Does anybody know whether Microsoft's Visual Studio supports the W3C Resource Description Framework concept? If so, how? regards, Maurice...more >>

Hello! Is anyone can help me to figure out how to write some xml into huge xml file into speceific location??? Say, i have a file about 139 Mb and i need to write some data (xml) into it, but in speceific location (specified by XPath for example). i have tryed used MSXML dom for it, but its...more >>

I have a dataset with a AutoIncrement column.. I write this to a XML file and read it back..to a Dataset.. The auto increment works perfectly every time. It picks up were it left...were does it pick up the last value from?.. I mean I thought it uses the max value + 1 logic for existing rows.. not...more >>

Having fits transforming an XML string using an XSL file. In the 1.1 version of the framework, I see that the XmlResolver is heavily used in the XslTransform class. However, that looks like I am only supposed to use that only when you have an xml ~file~... not an XML string (my XML is coming f...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to read an XML file into a SqlDataReader? I can pull it into a dataset, but want to have the same formatting capabilities that I have with a DataReader. Thanks....more >>

I am using the msxml5.dll that comes with Office 2003. Is there a redistributables of msxml5.dll just like msxml4? If so, how do I get it? Thanks Andy ...more >>