Another silly question - by default if I define a specific element as a
string (xsd:string) in a schema, if I validate a document against that
schema and the element is empty, should it, or should it not pass through
successfully??

Okay, this is probably a really stupid question - but I just can't figure it
out.
I have a large xml document which is being transformed into another using
.net xsl - some elements inside of which do not have any data at some times

I'm developing smaller Websites with Asp.net and C#.
For some Contents I want to develop a management system.
At the moment a think about managing the contents via xml-files.
For example the news section maybe has not more than 4 entries per page.

I have an XML doc that parses OK with DomDocument from MSXML2,
but it fails with XMLDocument in DotNet.
The error says something about mismatching opening and closing tags.
Any tips?

we are developing server side report generation application with .NET.
The problem is, that we have to present same data in diferent formats
(HTML, PDF, WORD, EXCEL). This has to be done using templates, wich
are defined by user (with GUI frontend). The main problem is how to

I'm using VB.NET and I have an application that binds a schema to the main
form's controls, and the user has the ability to load an XML file through
the schema and into the bound form. [CODE POSTED AT END OF MESSAGE]
My problem is this:  the schema contains an element called ...

I'm trying to generate class definitions from an XSD that contains something
like:
<xs:complexType name="foo" mixed="true">
   <xs:choice minOccurs = "0" maxOccurs="unbounded">

I have an application where I create an xml fragment using
an XslTransform object. However, if I use the following
output method,
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"

Hi, tried this a few weeks ago, but still need some help.
I have a simple database table, fields: Customer, WorkOrder, xmlDoc.
The xmlDoc fields contains a small blob of xml data, such as:
<WorkOrder>

i having the same problem with Strongly typed dataset, I have created
a stronsetly typed dataset by draging table from Server explorer and
now i have retreived xml from SQL server 2000 and tried to populate
dataset but it populates 0 rows even though ml contains rows. If i use

Where can I find some documentation on creating XML comment files. I would
like to know the format/conventions for creating them.

i have problems with the Namespaces and the .Net XML Parser
My XML looks like this:
<query xmlns="jabber:iq:roster">
   <item jid="srlee@localhost" name="srlee"

Hey XML-Guys,
I'm playing now for a couple of days with C# and XML.
In earlier threads a mentioned that I develop smaller Web-Applications.
Therefore I want to edit and add new nodes to my Xml-Documents.

We're building some web services that are primarily being consumed by a .net
application.  We're returning datasets for that purpose.  We're also have to
provide access to these services to classic asp pages.  To do this we're
returning a XmlDataDocument ie

We are creating xml SVG documents on the fly in VB.NET, an XMLDocument
obejct and need to create a <use/> element e.g.
<use xlink:href="#id" x="100" y="100"/>
To create this element, we use the CreateElement method and then the