i need to create a pattern for an string field in my xsd. the field may or may not have a value if it has a value it should be an integer. I have tried nillable and that didn't work. I'm writting this in c# using XmlValidatingReader. Thanks for your help Ray...more >>

Hello all, I've been trying to figure this out for hours now... can anyone help? I have an XML document like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <ICE:ServiceCall xmlns="ICE" xmlns:ICE="http://www.ice.net"> <ICE:Service name=""> <ICE:RetVal/> <ICE:ConnString/> <ICE:Para...more >>

Hi, I have a socket connection where messages are formatted as XML, i.e. each message is in the form <msg>..</msg>. Is there an easy way to get a XMLDocument for each message form the socket stream? I tried with XMLTextReader and the NetworkStream of the socket but the reader blocks until the ...more >>

Can anyone please explain why VS.NET 2003 XML IDE sometimes has problems validating documents against a schema but the same document/schema validates fine when run against system.xml.xmlvalidatingreader. Is this a documented bug? I could not find much on google. In the future I'll validate at...more >>

Hi, I have an XML-file : <book> <title>Alaska</title> </book> I would like transfer the <book>-elements to <bookname> using an xsl-sheet, thus producing xml-again. and saving the output in a new xml-file how can I achieve this ? I don't know how to setup my select-statements (????)...more >>

I have tried everything with this! I get an error stating "Index was outside the bounds of the array" My code looks like this.... xmlDoc = New XmlDocument() xmlDoc.Load("xml.doc") xslDoc = New XslTransform() xslDoc.Load("xsl.doc") Dim TWrtr As...more >>

I am using C# to write an application that migrates documents from one version of an XML schema/DTD to later one. Much of the document has the same structure in the two versions and I use XMLDocument.ImportNode to copy unchanged sub-trees between the old and new document but this takes much ...more >>

Sorry about creating a new post, but my old one is 3 pages down and the older posts don't seem to get answered very often. (original post at the bottom) I called PSS about the QFE fix and gave them the number provided below and they told me I need an article number because QFE 1641 fixes many...more >>

Dear all, I am using MS XML Parser 3.0, I want to know what will cause the "setAttribute" fail in IXMLDOMElement ?? My program is: extern CComQIPtr<IXMLDOMElement> elem; ASSERT(elem); // this is a valid element. HRESULT hr = elem->setAttribute(name, value); // why it return S_FAIL ???...more >>

I have zipped my sollution with the problem http://uploads.savefile.com/users/uploads/invoice.zip I'm trying to split XMLTextWriter code in three subs but I always get an error. This is the example from the book I'm learning now. Please, download this sollution and, if you know, let me know...more >>

Hi, the docs say : "The Xml-document is not loaded into memory when using XmlTextReader, as opposed to using the DOM where the entire document is loaded in memory" but, when using XmlTextReader, how can I parse then if the document is not loaded ? something must be loaded no ? thanks ...more >>

I guess this is a well asked question but it is tripping me up! I'm putting a forum together allowing xhtml markup content. I am validating against a schema but getting "Could not find schema information for element <elementName>... I would appreciate if anyone could advice where I am goin...more >>

Hi there, Can someone explain to me why I can't bind to an XmlDocument but I can bind to an XmlNodeList. It's my understanding that they both implement the IEnumerable interface which is required for databinding. Am happy to work with the XmlNodeList but I can't shake the feeling I'm missing s...more >>

Here's the link to WS-CF: http://www.thinktecture.com/Resources/Software/WSContractFirst/default.h tml Christoph Schittko MS MVP XML http://weblogs.asp.net/cschittko > -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Schittko [mailto:christoph@bracketangles.net] > Posted At: Friday, Nove...more >>

Hello, I can easily read an RSS sheet, but I am not able able to read a RDF sheet. Each time I try to read it returns me 0 nodes. Here is how I try it. Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) ReadRDF("http://www.xsltblog.com/index.rdf") ...more >>

I'm making one of my first web services (with C#) and need help getting started. I have received an idl file and a sdl file that describes the interface I need to implement... but how do I generate anything from these files? It seems like I have to convert one of the files to a wsdl file and th...more >>

Hi, I'm working on an xml schema and I'm running into some problems relating substitutionGroups and extensions. This xsd validates fine: There are three elements and three complex types and every element has the type of some complexType. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xs:schema...more >>

All - I'm pretty comfortable with simple XML serialization of objects. However I observed something the other day and I wanted to know if I solved it the right way. Basically if I have a string which contains a single xml node, I can serialize with this line of code: object = (object)se...more >>

Imagine one writing a class library CL1 for data storage. He defines classes ‘DataItem’ and ‘DataRecord’ so that the latter contains a collection of the former. And he derives class ‘IntItem’ from ‘DataItem’ [XmlRoot ("DataItem")] [XmlInclude (typeof (IntItem))] public class DataItem { ...more >>

Hi, is it possible to sort a XML file without using a XSLT or XSL file?? For example, my XML is: <A> <1> <3> <4> <2> </A> <C> <2> <1> </C> <B> <3> <2> <1> </B> The result of the sorting method should by: <A> <1> <2> <3> <4>...more >>

I have an xsl file to generate xml in to an html file. The size of the xsl is 300kb and size of the xml is 47 kb (the size of xml is variable). I am using VB.net to convert the xml file into an html file. The vb.net module peforms following task: load the xml file in XMLDocument object ( I...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to specify single-quotes to be used in xmlAttributes as follows : XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter (filename, null); writer.QuoteChar = (char)39; --> but he still generates double quotes ??? thnx for your help Chris ...more >>

HI, what is the purpose of XmlConvert.ToString() ? why not just use Convert.ToString() ? e.g. Int32 vInt32 = -2147483648; string s1 = XmlConvert.ToString(vInt32); string s2 = Convert.ToString(vInt32); s1 and s2 result in the same string. so what is the added benefit ? ...more >>

Hi, is there a method somewhere in the framework for swapping two pointers? -- Daniel A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?...more >>

I know nothing about XML and am asking this so I know if I should spend some time learning. I had a VB6 address book app that I converted to .net It reads and writes records in a random file. That is, each record is the same size, (composed of items that are fixed size strings.) If no midd...more >>

Hi, I would like to know the cleanest way to change the serialization of my Line class from: <Line staStart="2327.02" length="10.00000003390744"> <End>549016.570965 57945.741122</End> <Start>549019.590988 57955.274194</Start> </Line> to <Li...more >>

Forgive me if this seems trivial but I cannot seem to find an answer. For testing purposes, one of my methods in my Web Service writes to a file (at least tries). I am using the following line of code to create the text file: Dim sw As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("c:\Accesstimes.txt") ...more >>

Hi, I am reading values from an Xml file using XPathDocument / NodeIterators etc. My question is, is it possible to retrieve the XML for a node as a string so that i can use XML Serialization to instantiate an object from the XML Fragment returned WITHOUT using XmlDocument which loads the ...more >>

I'm finding the XmlSchema object model very hard to follow :-( I've figured out by trial and error how to do most things I need, but this one has me beat. Suppose my schema has a simple type defined as follows: <xs:simpleType name="abc"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:...more >>

I like the idea of doing transforms on XML data via stylesheet, but I don't like having to manage lots of .xslt files. Is there a standardized approach to storing xslt strings in a .net application? ...more >>

Hello all, After I've constructed an XmlDocument object composed of XmlNodes, I send the actual InnerXml contents to a server where my XML is processed. However, elements that have no InnerText end up looking like this: <PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST" MessageKeyword="REASON" /...more >>

I have the following Visual Basic .NET code in an ASP.NET project: ' ... Dim xdStructure As XmlDocument Dim xnStructureRoot As XmlNode xdStructure = New XmlDocument xdStructure.Load(Server.MapPath("~/xml/Structure.xml")) xnStructureRoot = xdStruc...more >>

Hi, I transform XML data in an OutputStream which is open as a word document. All works fine excepted the images defined in the xsl file which are html links (src="images/image1.jpg"). So, when I save the word document in a particular place, the image can't be displayed cause the path is ...more >>

Hi, I've loaded an XmlDocument from a file XML: this file has many similar XmlNode and it is difficult to select them by using SelectSingleNode of the object XmlDocument. I've this question: is it possible to identify each XmlNode of the XmlDocument by using an inner key or something like ...more >>

Hi, I'm reading in an xml-file that has to be validated by it's dtd (code below). This works fine, except from some weird behaviour. <!ELEMENT STRUCT (FIELD+)> <!ATTLIST STRUCT sname CDATA #REQUIRED ref CDATA #REQUIRED > This does what we expect (both sname and ref are required), but...more >>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C4D0E5.4D4014F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am somewhat new to extracting data from an XML document in .Net. My document looks like this: <?xml ve...more >>

I am developing two asp.net web projects. When the last page of the first project is done, it redirects to the first page of the second project. However, I need to transfer some data to the second project and I want to use xml data for this not query strings. Anyone know how to achieve th...more >>

hi anyone know of a C++ (ansi) XML parser which uses Visual Studio .Net 2003 compiler?? ...more >>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0033_01C4D0A4.E17FCE80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi guys I need your suggestions / opinion for doing this the right way. I have a XML and a Schema for the ...more >>

I have a dtd file . I want that file transformed into schema .I found program dtd2xsd.pl but it only prints on standard output. Has anyone worked with that program and how to set some parameters so it can print into some file? mario410sPaM@yahoo.com remove spam from mail ...more >>

How do I get the following code to not put the Unicode BOM in the file. If the attribute ecoding=UTF-8 exists, it will put the BOM in the file. objXMLDocument = New XmlDocument objXMLDocument.Load("C:\test.xml") 'change the xml file objXM...more >>

Hi, I want to create xml in the following format: .... <driver venid="VEN_1002&DEV_4C66&SUBSYS_011D1028" /> <driver venid="VEN_1003&DEV_4C67&SUBSYS_011D1029" /> <driver venid="VEN_1004&DEV_4C68&SUBSYS_011D1030" /> .... However, I am not able to load it in C#. I am not able to view it in IE...more >>

Here is my original xml structure. I want to add another child node called hyperlinks to the parent graphic. How would I modify this DTD to reflect this new child being added. Thank You for any help toward this end! <graphics> <graphic> <tag> <parameter/> ...more >>

Any leads/help/ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm getting a response back from a SOAP server and under classic ASP I was able to process the xml fine. The app is being ported to c# and the same approach isn't working as well. It fails at the xpath query after the results come back. XML respo...more >>

We are using MSDE 2000 and ADO.Net for our database/datalayer in our client server based app. The application is not expected to have more than one user because the whole thing is installed on a users machine. The problem with MSDE is that if you have to install it, its like a 70MB insta...more >>

Hi Guru's, Going crazy with this problem! I fill a dataset in asp.net with a 'FOR XML AUTO' query and Output it back to the browser. > DS.WriteXml(Response.OutputStream, XmlWriteMode.IgnoreSchema) No matter what I do I get the first nodes "<" encoded as "&lt;" This means that the scrip...more >>

I have written a class in C# and I have serilized into a file .I read somewhere that if you want a class to be serializble you must add an attribute called [Serializable] before the class and within the namespace,I didn't do that but I could serialize it using the following code: try { Xml...more >>

Hi I just have a quick question. One of our Windows based application uses the registry for configuration type options and some other things. I want to modify our application to move to use a XML file instead of the registry. The other engineer argues that it is faster and easier to manipula...more >>

have tree variable with their values: 1) rptName="report1" 2) rptPath="c:\......" 3) serverPath=http://server... and 4)an arry which contain Name/value pairs. what is the best way of wrting them into an xml file(C#)?? these Xml files are stored in the same directory so I also give the XM...more >>

All, I have been following this thread for some time now. Recently I found that in 2 seperate posts, the MSFT employees responded as there was a QFE to fix this problem. All you need to do is contact PSS. I was like great, so I contacted them. Then they asked for a kb article number (...more >>