What is the fastest .NET method of opening an XML file (no schema
validation) and doing basic XPath Queries?
Thanks
Richard.

Something werid happening to me. When I run a query against every xml I
have, below query works fine and returns what it should be returned.
but there is another xml file as below, which doesnt' return what it should!
I run a query like:  //*[contains(.,'the string I'm looking for ...

I was trying to convert the following VB6 code to VB.NET.  But I can't find
a corresponding System.XML object for MSXML IXMLDOMSelection.
I am thinking to use System.XML XMLNodeList object and GetElementsByTagName
method

I generated a class from a schema.  One of the fields are typed as
System.Guid.  Perfect.
The only problem is when this class serializes, the guid field serializes as
8c4a969b-2aa4-4679-b170-d9f6441f7c6d, when I need it as

However, I am wondering if I can make the creation of my object depend
on the name of the parent node DURING parsing (or even the name of the
grandparent node)?? In other words, how can I do something like this:
class MyParser : XmlDocument

Ok, I searched the group and the net but didn't find what I was looking for.

I have an xsd which must be in all lowercase(the tags).  However, I'd like
the generated classes (with xsd.exe) to be properly cased such as Person,

I need to write some unicode symbols such as degree symbol
(for example 36°) by using XMLTextWrite but couldn't make
it work. I found the degree char in unicode is '\u030A'
and here is my sample code:

Hi there, I have an interesting problem that maybe you pros can suggest how I solve.
I'm working with a third party program that serializes an XML document (it was obviously not designed with schema in mind).  I created a schema from this document.  It works fine.  Except for some ...

I'm new to xml and sometimes gives me a hardtime. is there any xpah query
that returns a particular string I'm looking for?
I used:   //*contains(text()="foo") the "foo" could be in any part of xml
file. it could be text or attribute or ....

I'm looking to take an existing XML document, query for certain nodes, and 'recreate' the document with just the relevant nodes.  I'm currently using XPath - I have established the pattern that returns the required child nodes from the document, but am struggling to find a good ...

I would like to generate an xml schema based upon a class, just as you can
do with xsd.exe (xsd.exe /type: typename /outputdir:c:\ assmeblyname).  Is
there a way to do this by code instead of using this tool?
Thanks in advance.

Anyone know how fast for XML performance when I use dataset to save and read
data from XML file? my client need those answers.
Thanks in advance
Sandra

I'm using VB.DOC & NDoc for now until Whidbey is released and I'm looking
for a way to extract and compile my XML comments for private methods.  These
tools and I beleive the existing C# doc functions only extract XML for
public Fields & Methods.  I presume because reflection does ...

Howdy:
I am currently writing a .Net handler to replace an ASP page.  The ASP
module used a COM dll to format XML.  This dll was pretty robust and
it auto-suppressed empty elements and attributes.  A developer in my

In my old VB6 application I have an xslt extension object that builds a
small cross reference document and returns it as a NodeList in my XSLT.  I
can then use it with xpath expressions as $nodeset/xpath and I would get my
values or use xsl:copy-of and I would get the whole document ...