> Hi,
>
> We have a webservice that generates an xml string that has a empty/null
> datetime field (<OurDate></Ourdate>). When we use ReadXML read in the
> serialized string we get the error:
>
> "string not recognized as a valid datetime"
>
> Our code looks like this:
>
> Dim sReader As New StringReader("data.xml")
> myDataset.ReadXml(sReader)
>
> Is there a strategy to handle blank dates you can suggest.
>
> Thanks,
>
> J Goss
>
>
>
>

"Zafar Abbas" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> null values are not valid instances of the dateTime datatype. You have to
> either put xsi:nil="true" on the XML or change the type to string.
>
> "GossTremontTech" <GossTremontTech@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:64F15382-14E5-42DD-A204-4FD8B3B26EC9@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a webservice that generates an xml string that has a empty/null
>> datetime field (<OurDate></Ourdate>). When we use ReadXML read in the
>> serialized string we get the error:
>>
>> "string not recognized as a valid datetime"
>>
>> Our code looks like this:
>>
>> Dim sReader As New StringReader("data.xml")
>> myDataset.ReadXml(sReader)
>>
>> Is there a strategy to handle blank dates you can suggest.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> J Goss
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>