I'm using the XmlValidatingReader to validate a XML document against
its schema.  The code for this is working correctly and giving me the
line/position of the invalid XML elements.  However, I want to do more
than this.

given a string of text, how can i test whether it has integrity when
verified with a DTD file on disk, as well as checking it's even a valid XML
formatted string?
Is this possible to do with the .Microsoft .Net DOM?

I am having an issue trying to use the SelectNodes method in C# when
using an Xpath Query.  I realize lots of people have posted on this
subject, but I have a little bit of a different variation.
Let's take the document

Be gentle.
I need the equivalent of an ini file or registry key in my program.  
Both are denigrated.  So is using the app.config file to store run-time
configuration values.

Does id() xpath function work in System.XML?  I have built dtd, schema, xdr
for a simple xml which includes attributes definded as ID and IDREFS.
Validation is occurring properly for all the types of metadata, but the id()
function applied to the IDREFS attribute allways returns ...

I'm trying to write a XSL style sheet that will transform
a SOAP document into a different type of SOAP document.  
However, if I try to create an element in my style sheet
of "<xsl:element name="SOAP-ENV:Envelope>", nothing gets

I need to validate XML fragment against XSD schema. The main issue is that
xml fragment does not contain refrence to schema, but I want to force the
validation against the schema I have in XmlSchema object.
The scenario is as follows:

Having worked through the problems around enabling the document function
using an XmlUrlResolver I started work on building a useful class to hide
the intricacies.
Trying to generalise the process I've hit a snag.

i have a file like this (which im manipulating using
vb.net)
<CUSTOMERS>
    <PRIMARY>Y</PRIMARY>

Is there an existing method that will return the XPath that would give the
current node?  In other words, using the following XML document:
<root>
    <node value="1"/>

I have been using the following code (successfully) to read Xml formated
text packets from a TCP stream. The output from the server stream consists
of a sequence of well formed Xml documents written to the output stream.
We are willing to pay $ to any expert (e.g. MVP) consultant ...

I'm developing in C# with .NET 1.1 in Visual Studio 2003.
I have a lot of experience with C++ and am becoming proficient in C#.  I
have no experience with XML.
I'm looking for direction.  Here's my problem:

Is it possible to sort the result of an XPath "select"
query?
I need to return a subset of a large xml file, and XPath
is the way to go. I'd like to sort this subset afterwards?

The input xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!-- Konfigur?ci? le?r?sa -->
<Konfig xmlns:bk="urn:inifile">

I have a set of XSD's that I have to instantiate at run
time and pass some values in C++.Net. How can I acheive
it? Please advice.
Best,