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Bo - 24 Sep 2004 22:31 GMT

I can create this xml document, but can't read it from file into
XmlDocument object. It complains about the first charactor in node
name...

<123>567</123>

Is there a way to turn off validation during XmlDocument.Load?

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Zafar Abbas [MSFT] - 25 Sep 2004 02:59 GMT

element name checking is not a part of validation, rather XML 1.0
conformance checking. If your xml is not conformant, XML Document will not
load it.

> I can create this xml document, but can't read it from file into
> XmlDocument object. It complains about the first charactor in node
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>
> Is there a way to turn off validation during XmlDocument.Load?

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BD - 26 Sep 2004 18:06 GMT

In my project, investment transactions are organized by date (yyyymmdd).
Such as:

<Account1>
<20021231>
<buy><ibm>20</ibm></buy>
<sell><aol>100</aol></sell>
</20021231>
<20030102>
<buy><csco>200</csco></buy>
<sell><msft>100</msft></sell>
</20030102>
</Account1>

If I can load this xml into XmlDocument object, I can reference any dates
easily, such as:

If (doc["Account1"][20021231] != null) { do something...}

Now, with this xml restriction, how should I go about it?

Thanks,

Bo

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Chris Lovett - 27 Sep 2004 08:12 GMT

Just stick the letter "d" in front of each date as the name of those
elements and then it will be proper XML.

> In my project, investment transactions are organized by date (yyyymmdd).
> Such as:
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> Bo

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Martin Honnen - 25 Sep 2004 14:58 GMT

If you do not comply with the well-formedness rules then your markup is
not XML and thus rejected by the parser. So the error you get is not a
validation error but a well-formedness error, your element name is not
allowed to start with a digit.

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