What's the easiest way to read/write xml?

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Andy B - 29 Mar 2008 02:43 GMT

I have this good sized xsd file I created (219 lines long). It is supposed
to be a representation of a contract a business uses. I need to know what
the best and easiest way is to create and use xml files with this schema. I
will be doing a lot of adding/changing/editing of the xml files too. I tried
to look at XmlDocument but got totally lost. Any ideas on how to overcome
this problem?

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Alberto Poblacion - 29 Mar 2008 10:20 GMT

>I have this good sized xsd file I created (219 lines long). It is supposed
>to be a representation of a contract a business uses. I need to know what
>the best and easiest way is to create and use xml files with this schema. I
>will be doing a lot of adding/changing/editing of the xml files too. I
>tried to look at XmlDocument but got totally lost. Any ideas on how to
>overcome this problem?

The easiest way is probably the following:
- Use XSD.EXE to generate a class from your xsd file.
- Add the class to your project. Create an instance and fill it with
data.
- Use the XmlSerializer to serialize your class into a file. The file
will be xml and conform to the schema that you originally described in the
xsd.

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Andy B - 31 Mar 2008 00:45 GMT

How do you use the XmlSerializer?

>>I have this good sized xsd file I created (219 lines long). It is supposed
>>to be a representation of a contract a business uses. I need to know what
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> will be xml and conform to the schema that you originally described in the
> xsd.

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Alberto Poblacion - 31 Mar 2008 08:25 GMT

> How do you use the XmlSerializer?

Like this:

using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;
...

TheClass myInstance = new TheClass();
myInstance.someField = theValue;
...

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TheClass));
TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(@"C:\TEMP\TheFile.xml");
serializer.Serialize(writer, myInstance);
writer.Close();

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Fabricio - 31 Mar 2008 14:47 GMT

On Mar 31, 4:25 am, "Alberto Poblacion" <earthling-
quitaestoparacontes...@poblacion.org> wrote:

> > How do you use the XmlSerializer?
>
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> serializer.Serialize(writer, myInstance);
> writer.Close();

You can have another option:

Use this XSD file as a Dataset file, if possible.
Then you can work with XML files using Dataset methods (WriteXML and
ReadXML, i guess).
So, the XML file works as a table and its rows.

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