I'm using System.Data.DataSet.ReadXml to convert some xml from a webservice
to a DataSet.  The xml looks like:
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?><root><prioritiesTable><description>blah blah&#13;blah

how do i write checkbox1  boolean to xml
in vb6 i can only do  cstr( checkbox1.value) but  in vb.net can't write
to xml. i am doing irc chat similar to mirc or pirch chat.
rw.WriteConfigInfo("User Modes", chkInvisible.Text,

I am trying to pull data from child nodes but I cannot find the syntax that
works. I think I may be confusing elements and nodes? I want to get the
value of the items in the <Sched> child nodes. The relevant part of my code
are below as well as a part of the source xml.

Ok, I have 2 xml files that are really similar. They have the exact
same structure exept that in one XML some element are required and in
the other they are simply absent from the xml.
Problem is in they are similar at 90% what I was looking for is a way

How to get list of namespces that are declared in an element ?

How can one extract the Attribute values from a Dataset that has been loaded
with an XML file like the following at the bottom of the document.  I have
to use a dataset and the XML file must remain the same?
Regards,

What see sample that show xs:element  where the xs namespace =
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
However, I see another example with xsi: where xsi =
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance

Hello, I am working in .Net C# and have an xml file similar to the one
below.  I have tried using a DataSet but get the error "The same table
(Gid) cannot be the child table in two nested relations".  The file
has a number of parent nodes at the "<ShipmentHeader>" level, each of

Regarding deserializing XML into a custom object...
I've been able to deserialize an XML doc into my custom object and
everything works great.  The problem I am encountering is when one of the
XML elements contains a NULL and it maps to a variable of type Integer in my

I have been given a schema, instances of which I'm required to be able to
consume and generate. I'd like to be able to manipulate these instances as
DataSets internally in my application. The schema defines the following
simpleType:

Is there a way to convert a .xml file to a comma delimited text file using
vb .net?
Thanks for any help.
Bernie Yaeger

I am looking for pointers to good beginner books, tutorials or other
resources to help me understand how to really use XML data. I program mostly
in VB (I have several applications in VB6 but am just starting to convert to
VB.NET). Most of my database backends are SQL Server 2000 ...

In my .NET application I save data in an XML file.
When opening a project from an XML file I parse the file and recreate objects, set settings etc.
The problem is that the XML file can be very big (~20Mb).
How can I compress/decompress it programatically?

I have made client software where users make orders. Local data is stored in
xml file.
Users are offline from network most of time eg. one week or month and then
they connect dbserver.

   I would like to find an example of how to handle
serializing/deserializing collections in VB.net
i have an XML file that contains a collection of elements that have two
keys. I would like to populate a combo box with each unique value of key