I plan to implement some report generation using Formatting objects on the
.NET platform. Does Microsoft have a built in version? .Or What are my
options? are there any free ones which can be used on the .NET platform?
Any help in this regard would be appreciated

My problem is this. I have to create several xmlReader objects each
retrieving 'for xml' formatted sql server data.  I then need to peice them
together into a single document and place them into a single XPathDocument
which is then transformed throughout the web site with different

I was given the task of designing a complete web based
document prep system. In simplest terms (using a msword
explanation) create a database of merge fields, and a
library of templates. Allow the webuser to select the

I'm looking to get noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute from the
following Xml file. Whats the most efficient way to do this using the
XmlDocument class in c#?
<?xml version="1.0"?>

I have a merged dataset that contains xml read from SQL Server.  I need to
place the data into an XPathDocument.
I can do the following:
mydataset.writeXML("mydata.xml")

When creating a function in xpath with IXsltContextFunction, if the return
type is nodeset, what do you actually return from the Invoke function? A
XmlNodeList? XPathNodeIterator?
public System.Xml.XPath.XPathResultType ReturnType

I have an xml doc
<sections>
 <section>
   <title>entry image</title>

I am using the msxml5.dll that comes with Office 2003.
Is there a redistributables of msxml5.dll just like msxml4?
If so, how do I get it?
Thanks

Can anyone tell me how to read an XML file into a
SqlDataReader?
I can pull it into a dataset, but want to have the same
formatting capabilities that I have with a DataReader.

Does anybody know whether Microsoft's Visual Studio
supports the W3C Resource Description Framework concept?
If so, how?
regards,

  I'm trying to generate a xml instance with some default values from a xsd schema with vb.net. I think .net does not provide any classes to do this, does it?
Alternatively are there any third classes namespaces that make this operation or I have to do generate the xml instance ...

Here is the XML file i am using right now, note: there is only an
"Administrator" group right now, in the end there will be 6 or 7
different groups of navigation levels
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

Is it necessary for me host schemas in some webserver? At
present, I use localhost but still the xml instance cannot
find its schema. Any help please?

    I'm having problems with some very simple deserialization code
and would appreciate it very much if I could get some help here.
    The following is the code:
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I am migrating an existing ASP app that uses XSLT transformations to render against a language XML doc for localization and other items.  When I moved this logic into .NET and the native xml and xsl objects I noticed a significant processor hit on the web machine.
The xml file is ...