Hi,

We have a webservice that generates an xml string that has a empty/null
datetime field (<OurDate></Ourdate>).  When we use ReadXML  read in the
serialized string we get the error:

"string not recognized as a valid datetime"

Our code looks like this:

       Dim sReader As New StringReader("data.xml")
       myDataset.ReadXml(sReader)

Is there a strategy to handle blank dates you can suggest.

Thanks,

J Goss