While the XmlSerializer can read boolean values as either 0/1 or true/false, it always writes true/false, which is a problem when I want to insert in an SQL Server bit column. Temporarily, I'm using a surrogate variable (see below), but I'd like to do it in a cleaner way. Is it possible? Co...more >>

Hello, All! Is it possible to change parameters of locale for writing XML file (with XMLTextWriter)? I want DataSet.WriteXML() to use NumberDecimalSeparator "." instead of "," Regards, Vyacheslav ...more >>

Greetings, I am writing an application that uses an extendible XML file. in order to validate that XML I use a main XSD and in additional - few more extensions XSD's that uses the types in the main XSD as base types. my clients can define their own XSD's extensions and use my generic applic...more >>

I'm using XML Serialization to try and get this structure: <LibraryCategories> <LibraryCatgeory>1</LibraryCatgeory> <LibraryCatgeory>2</LibraryCatgeory> <LibraryCatgeory>3</LibraryCatgeory> </LibraryCategories> My class has a public property called LibraryCategories, of type Ar...more >>

Hello all, Do System.Xml.XmlNode's have a unique system ID available via a property somehow? I have nodes which may be very similar or even identical (but in different locations) in a document and need to be able to look them up via this ID. I have for now assigned my own GUID to each ...more >>

I could not find an example of an inline XSD schema for an XML document which has no namespaces. Could someone supply one ? When I tried validating my XML with an inline XSD schema, using XmlDocument.Load on a validating reader set to System.Xml.ValidationType.Auto, it failed and I do not know...more >>

Well, despite reading an excellent article on ComplexTypes, I am unsure on the quickest way to express the following <myElem myAttrib="noMoreThan30chars"> No More than 30 chars </myElem> Both on the string are SimpleContent, right? Thanks, Mark BTW the article is http://www.xml.com/pub/a...more >>

I am triing to query the following xml document. I am loading the xml into a XML Document and then using XPath to get the EntityDataSet Node Here is my code XMLDoc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument(); if (this.m_FileLocation != null && this.m_FileLocation.Length > 0) XMLDoc.Load(this.m_Fil...more >>

In a C# app I have an XPath query where I am trying to return a single node based on the value of 2 different attributes. The xml looks something like this: <TESTS> <TEST SAMPLE_NUMBER="1" TEST_NUMBER="1"/> <TEST SAMPLE_NUMBER="1" TEST_NUMBER="2"/> <TEST SAMPLE_NUMBER="2" TEST_...more >>

Hi, I have a .Net Web Service and the encoding of the SOAP Messages is always UTF-8, and I need to change the web service so that it encodes with ISO-8859-1 because it’s the only encoding my web services client supports. I've updated my web.config & machine.config Globalization requestEn...more >>

I often have to change a single value in an xml file based off of a given ID. Is there any easy way to do this through .net.xml? Do I have to parse the file then write it out again?...more >>

Hi, I try retrieve an XML stream from a webapp using a post "http://webedu.its.uct.ac.za/webct/public/serve_webctdb?OPERATION=homearea_xml&DB=global&WebCT%20ID=rodgersn_its_main&AUTH=ee09aabc77ef593917a60720f167c733" and result = req.GetResponse() ReceiveSt...more >>

Hello and thank you for reading on (hopefully). How does one typecast the XMLREADER returned from the XSLTRANSFORM method 'transform' into XMLTEXTREADER, so it can be passed in to an XMLVALIDATINGREADER? I am getting an invalid cast. It seems that although the XSLTRANSFORM 'transform' met...more >>

Can I generate PDF from XML using .NET? ...more >>

Hello Folks! Using http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320847 as a reference, I am trying to pipe the results of an XSL Transformation directly out of a WebApp Default.aspx. The code is as follows; ------------------------------------------ Private Sub...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with XmlNodes and my stack. It looks something like this: //declarations XmlNode node, new_node; Stack MyStack = new Stack(); //code MyStack.Push(node); new_node=MyStack.Pop(); The last line delivered an error like this: Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to...more >>

Hi, Can anybody explain the following? Say I have the following source XML and XSLT (see below). No matter what this XSLT does. It is just a sample to show a problem. the idea is that XSLT transforms small XML into quite big XML. Now, I have a straightforward C# (see below) code that d...more >>

My app builds up a structure using a typed dataset; when it is done it wants to output it as xml. Unfortunately, since <OBJECT> and <SOURCE> elements appear in two different parts of the heirarchy, I had to rename one pair as <OBJECT2> and <SOURCE2> in order to get the xsd to be valid. So I hav...more >>

Hi everibody, I have a XML document that I load as XmlDocument. I would like to add it a new tag "mytag" with an attribute "xlink:href". For this purpose I wrote this code: Dim myNode as XmlElement myNode= myXmlDocument..CreateElement("myTag") attr = myXmlDocument.CreateAttribute("xlin...more >>

I am using an XmlDataSource in VS2005Beta1 and setting the TransformFile property in my ASCX and it is finding both files. However, the resulting data does not contain any of the sub nodes of the generated document. I have tested my XSL by viewing the generated XML and it properly transforms...more >>

I am trying to write a web service that gets a list of users from ActiveDirectory and then returns them as an XmlNode that can be consumed by InfoPath. I am having problems finding a tutorial that will let me know how to create an XML Node from scratch and build it out as I cycle through th...more >>

Hi, what is the purpose of having a XmlSchemaCollection since you can only validate an xml-file against 1 xsd-file at a time ? so why have a collection ? thanks Chris ********************************************************************** Sent via Fuzzy Software @ http://www.fuzzysoftwa...more >>

Hi, XmlElement.OuterXml allows us to get a string representation of a XML element as well as its children but it is get-only and you can't assign OuterXml to a string of XML fragment. Does anyone know a way to convert or create XML element from a string of XML fragment? For example, if I ...more >>

I am rather new to the XML and XSD world and was wondering what the code would look like to write the following XSD items as classes in C# with all the proper XML attributes to make them serializable. Thanks in advance. <xsd:complexType name="Order"> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element ref="Or...more >>

Googling and GoogleGrouping for "XML Byte Data Records" and similar bring back millions of hits about character sets. ;-) Is XML appropriate for specifying and validating byte-oriented data? Can it be used for bit masking validation? Comments and URLs appreciated. Thanks. -- Mark ...more >>

Hi When using XmlDocument, I can create nodes and attributes as I like. What I didn't achieve is changing the Value of a node (created with createElement), it claims that it's the wrong node type. When changing the InnerText, I loose all child nodes. When cloning the node and reassigning th...more >>

I get an unhandled exception, when I try to execute XmlDocument.Load(...) in my C# Windows application: -------------------------------------------- "Common Language Runtime Debugging Services" Process id... thread id... Click OK to terminate ... Click Cancel to Debug ... -------------------...more >>

I have a table in my SQL Server that I am loading into a datatable. I am then saving the dataset that this table is a member of (it's the only table in the dataset) to an XML file so that I can use it offline in another part of my program. The code I use for this is: ds.WriteXML("c:\cli...more >>

Using the function below, I'm importing configuration parameters, from an xml file, into a Windows service. This code works as expected in a regular Windows application, but when used in a Windows service (written in vb.net), it produces unintended side effects. The most notable being multiple...more >>

Hello: I would like to output the following XML Element using the XmlTextWriter, but I cannot get it correct: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <SOAP-ENV:Body xmlns:SOAP-SEC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/security/2000-12" S...more >>

I've read a lot of posts on this subject each with a slightly different issue and from what I gather my code is fine. But its not. I'm trying to pull out the SQL query from a SQL report document which looks something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Report xmlns="http://sch...more >>

Hi all, I have an application loading xml-documents. The purpose is just to load the document and do some processing. The documents is generated by external vendors outside my company. Some of the vendors, however, delivers the documents encoded as iso-8859-1 - the document root looks like t...more >>