"Michel" <Michel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Actually, that depends on a lot.
>
> Has it to be high performant?
> Do you have to search in the xml file?
> Do you need to do some transformation of the xml file?
> ...
>
> You can find a lot of documentation about this on the internet.
> For example, a nice document of the different way's you can use, can you
> find at http://support.softartisans.com/kbview.aspx?ID=674
>
> It describes the most commenly used way's to access the data in xml files,
> and also mentions when to use which way.
>
> If I had to choose, I'd use the XPathNavigator when I have to search in
the
> xml file for values needed to populate the checkboxlist (for example when
you
> have a very large xml file, with somewhere in it the values you need).
>
> At the other hand, what is not mensioned in the document, but might be
> interesting :
> When you have a simple xml file structure, and you are going to use it (or
> xml files with are identically in structure) a lot. And when the structure
of
> the xml file will not change, then I would create a new class for it.
> (This is very simple : In VS2003, include an example xml file in the
> project, double click on it, richt click on the document, generate a
schema
> for it, open that one, richt click and create a dataset from it. At that
> moment a new class is created, which inherents from DataSet. This class
you
> can use to 'ReadXml' and 'WriteXml' to create and save a 'dataset'.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michel
>
>
>
>
>
> "me" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a novice question:
> >
> > How do you populate a checkboxlist with XML data?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> >