I have a Windows Service that reads and writes an XML file to disk periodically. I use the XmlSerializer to serialize and deserialize the XML file on disk. I am writing the file using an XmlTextWriter and UTF8 encoding. I notice after long periods of time that my file has bad, non-displayable...more >>

In my .net ,i need to generate an xml file , however, user may input a chinese character, Then , the xml will got something unknow characters. the following is my code, Does anyone know how to solve it ?? Private Sub Init() With AMSXML ..Formatting = Formatting.Indented ..Indentation = 4 ....more >>

I have to work with an existing xml where there is a root element and all other elements are children of the root (in other words there is no nesting or hierarchy), e.g. <myroot> <A>adata</A> <B>bdata</B> <C>cdata</C> <A>otheradata</A> </myroot> Unfortunately there are a lot of ...more >>

Hi, given a schmea and the currently selected element (via XPath) of a XmlDocument that uses this schema, I want to allow a xml editor to give the user a choice of possible ChildNode Elements. Pretty much the way Visual Studio's Xml intellisense works. I am quite unsure, which path to take....more >>

I am trying to create the following xml file with VS 2005: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <SettingsFile xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2004/01/settings" CurrentProfile="(Default)" GeneratedClassNamespace="" GeneratedClassName="Extra"> <Profiles> <Profile N...more >>

the first thing I searched the internet is what is the XML Binding? also while I;m reading the eSCORTE4js for SCORM i noticed the following comment // these functions handle the conversion to/from the IEEE 1484_11_3 XML binding values what this means? ...more >>

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Hi I have a string with the following contents: "<TR align=right ID=G><TD align=left><A HREF="/comun/fichaemp/fichavalor.asp?isin=ES0111845014"><IMG SRC="/images/arr-up9.gif" BORDER=0> ABERTIS SE.A</A></TD><TD>19,96</TD><TD ID=V>0,15</TD><TD>19,96</TD><TD>19,83</TD><TD>1.060.525</TD><TD>21...more >>

I just started using VS 2K5 beta 2 the other day. I am trying to move a project I created over to in pieces to 2K5. I can't seem to figure out why the follow XPath returns nothing in 2K5 "descendant::element[@ref='CurrDate']". The XML I am trying to select from is as follows: <?xml version=...more >>

I'm trying to create Element as following name MyElement:InitialName XmlElement elem = doc.CreateElement("MyElement:InitialName"); when generate the XML the tag is truncated as ONLY "MyElement",why? Any Suggestions ...more >>

I need store some setting in XML. I can not decide to use xml element or xml attribute to store them, for example, the XML could be <Page> <Label>test</Label> <Size>10</Size> ..... </Page> and it could be <Page label="test" size="10"/> I read some articles. Most them suggest element...more >>

What do you think is the best design approach when your trying to get nested XML results from dataSet.GetXML. Define the relations in the dataset or apply an XSLT stylesheet to nest the results by syncing the dataset with an XMLdocument? ...more >>

I am getting XML from a dataset that has been populated via a storedprocedure no schemas have been applied nor any relationships. But the correct table names have been given to match the table(s) equivalent business object(s). I have a custom collection that implements ICollection and IEnumera...more >>

Last time, I asked a question about if a XPathDocument could be serialized. Actually what I really want to know is how should I do in this case: I have a class that will be serialized. In the class, I need call another class, which will read setting from database. I want to load the xml once a...more >>

Hi, I have a web service which stores an uploaded image into SQL server, thus there are a few things need to do: 1. Convert image to base64Binary. 2. Call web service and embed image as base64Binary in XML string. 3. Web service save image binary into SQL. Where can i find the samples. Is...more >>

I have the following section of VB.NET code that transforms a simple dataset into an Excel xml workbook. It works fine for < 50 rows or so, but I have about 8,000 rows I need to transform. Is there a better way than what I am doing. This is part of an ASP.NET applicaiton. 'Clear the...more >>

I have a XSLT file that gives expected results when I transform using MSXML V4.0 in a simple vbs file. However when using XslTransform in dotnet, I do not get the same results. The part of the XSLT file that does not work correctly is: <Token TokenId="3129"> <xsl:for-each select="EDI/Segme...more >>

When i export a an XML from a dataset, i have a problem with the accented characters (es. à;é;ì etc) I know that XML doesn't use it. I should use a particular encoding? how can i convert this characters? Exists a function for convert? ...more >>

Help I'm trying to perform a transform and I keep on getting '' is invalid QName. The weird thing is, I can take the same code, stylesheet and XML, put into a Console app and it works okay. I've tested the stylesheet in Stylus Studio and tried using nxslt and both work fine. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hi There. I've been doing a little research, but found little of value. My problem's this: I've got a DataSet containing a serious bunch of data. From this DataSet I want to "extract" some of the values (values in specific datatable columns). I've got an XSD which has the right syntax for ...more >>

I want to do something like: bool bContinueReading=true; XmlTextReader Reader=new XmlTextReader("file.xml"); while(bContinueReading) { try { Reader.Read(); ... } catch { Reader.Skip(); } } To skip over any xml formatting problems (in...more >>

I need to generate an XML document that will be validated against a DTD. Up to this point, I have been using XML Serialization with good results, but there is one item I haven't been able to figure out. The generated XML needs to look something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf...more >>

I want to be able access an xml file using an XPath? query to go to a specific node. Once I have that node I want to be able to retrieve the value of an attribute. Can't seem to get this working using the 2.0 Framework. Here's a sample of the XML <Agency> <vu_Agency AgencySysNo="1" Name=...more >>

I'm having some trouble figuring out how to deserialize an empty XML element in VB.NET. Let's say I'm trying to deserialize XML such as: <Order> <OrderRefNumber/> <Customer>Bob</Customer> </Order> I would then have a simple entity object to represent the XML data. That object would hav...more >>

Hi, why the duration of call the CloneNode(true) is steadily increasing? First call is 0.004s and 100th is 0.16s! XML file is 5kB only, no disk swap. XmlDataDocument xml = new XmlDataDocument(); xml.Load(@"C:\foo.xml"); for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { XmlNode node = xml.CloneNode(true); ...more >>

This is an honest question, no sarcasm intended. I'm really curious, what -is- the big deal about XML? I'm heaing all sorts of things such as an open standard that can be read across all platforms, etc. But really, my colleagues are insisting that we transfer large chunks of data using XM...more >>

Hello When validating xml against a schema, the most frequent error I get is something like "The 'FOO' attribute has an invalid value according to its data type. An error occurred at , (25, 913)". That error message is not very user friendly, so I'd like to extract the data in the failing ...more >>

I thought I had figured it out. But, I am only half way there. Now I have the following code snippet to read the colorRange attributes for the colorRangeSwatch in the xml file listed below. string expr = "/swatches[colorRangeSwatch='All Red Colors']/colorRangeSwatch/colorRange"; ...more >>

My question has to do with the process of calling web services. Typically when the client calls a web service they can specify the timeout for the call. My question is how the actual web service or individual method can police this parameter so as to maintain better control. Some of the w...more >>

I have the following code snippet to read the colorRange attributes for the colorRangeSwatch in the xml file listed below. string expr = "swatches[colorRangeSwatch='All Red Colors']"; XmlElement crsElement = (XmlElement)m_colorRangeSwatchDoc.SelectSingleNode(expr); bool fr ...more >>

I've written a small web service in c# that takes in a plaintext string, encrypts it, then returns the encrypted string. Some of the characters returned by encryption are illegal xml characters and causes an error when trying to consume the service coldfusion(axis). The service works fine when...more >>

I have an XPathDocument which contains a list of color definitions. If I want to add a new color definition to, or delete an existing one from, the source xml file how can I force this to be reflected in the XPathDocument? Do I have to reload the XPathDocument? If so, would I need to dispose o...more >>

How do you get around the problem of empty tables in a dataset not being included when you do a WriteXML? When you later read the data back into a new dataset, those tables are gone, because they never got saved to the XML file. Only tables containing one or more records get saved to the XML fi...more >>

I just ran across this. #1 <DBColumn> 1 </DBColumn> #2 <DBColumn> </DBColumn> The data for #1 will be parsed and returned as " 1 ". I get a sequence of Element/Text/EndElement. The data for #2 will not be returned. I get a sequence of Element/Whitespace/EndElement...more >>

I am using an XMLValidatingReader to validate an XML file received via a web service. I want to verify that the incoming file matches the XML schema. When testing the validation routine, the XMLValidatingReader correctly flags mis-matched tags such as <abc>some content</xyz> but does not catch...more >>

Hi, I am converting wordml into a custom html. The converted xml is in UTF-8 fromat. But the special characters get garbled in conversion. For Example they show up as "â?"".. What needs to be done to avoid this. Thanks Rahul Aggarwal ...more >>

Hi, I want to generate different XML files from one CSV file. For eample I want build the employee.xml which should contain the distinct list of employees from the CSV file. The CSV File contains employee name getting repeated multiple times based on the record type. Please suggest how can ...more >>

Hi, I need to validate an xml which contains a tag called <Trigger> that contains a structure which I don't know and that I don't want to validate. How should indicate in the XSD file that the document can contain a tag caller <Trigger> but that I don't want to do any validation of its...more >>

Hi! I have an Excel 2003 Schema I need to parse to extract elements names. I am puzzled with the System.Xml.Schema object. Here's the example of my schema: I need to get a collection of element names(TemplateB62,TemplateC62 ......) <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xsd:schema targe...more >>

I know this is too easy for you heavy-weights but I am drowning in streams and writers ..., I have created an XmlDocument containing all my nodes and attributes. I just need to do something like: string XmlString = MyXMLDoc.MakeXmlString(); Ok... so what do I really have to do... I sta...more >>

Hi group, searching in the Internet I found two products for XML which incorporate a very robust debugger for XSL/XSLT, I would like you to see these products and then, give me your opinion about the development environment or recommend me some other that you know. XML IDE's - http://xslt-pro...more >>

Hi all, I have several Xml files, which at the root node change the default namespace, as below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <rootNode xmlns="http://www.some.com/namespace/A" /> where A can be several different codes. I found in order to be able to SelectNodes, I needed to ...more >>

I've got a schema loaded into a XmlSchema class. Via the elements collection I can see all the elements defiend at the root of the schema. How can I get the definition of a nested schema element? Thanks. ...more >>

I have an xml file from which I want to generate an xsd schema and at a later stage a cs class. The xml file has a mix of defined namespaces and also an empty namespace. These are defined as follows: <silcn:silcn xmlns:silcn='http://silcn.org/200309' xmlns='http://xmlprobe.com/200312'> i...more >>

I've looked at XmlDiff, but can't use its output in my case. Therefore i'm looking for an alternative. I need at piece of code that can take 2 xml documents and tell me the differnces. Any ideas?...more >>

I short: May I use the XmlDiff dll's from GotDotNet in production code i sell?...more >>

I get an XmlDocument from an external source. I want to load it/map it to C# class. I'm creating classes as I learn about the format. many tag are yet unparsed, but that seems ok for the XmlSerializer, great! Now here is my problem. let say my document conceptually map to classes like t...more >>

How do I write an XPath expression to read the color range node from the following xml file. I.e. where attribute = "All Red Colors"? The final file will have many more nodes in it. I realize this is probably very easy but the examples I have seen only indicate how to get a match for red, blu...more >>

(VS.NET 2K3, C#) Hi, I need to serialize/deserialize an element using XmlSerializer that can contain any valid XML including a CDATA section. [XmlRootAttribute] public class Test { [XmlAnyElement] public XmlElement Anything; } This doesn't work with an XML like the following: <Test><...more >>

Hi, Hopefully someone can answer this; I am using aspx and c# to format XML using an XSL transform, the output is then written to the the response of the webform. When the page first loads the layout is not like it is described in the XSL... there is too much whitespace with gaps between th...more >>