We have problems deseralizing objects previously serialized as XML.
This did work fine with .NET 1.1 but since we have installed SP1,
deserializing fails (but serializing works). The error occurs within
the following line "return formatter.Deserialize(xmlReader) as

in my ASP.NET (C#) application I would like to check in advance if a node
exist: my code is as follow:
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(XML_FILENAME);

I can't get the following call to document() to work in a VB .Net (1.0)
application, but it works in IE6.
Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work?
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I'm trying to import some Excel XML into a dataset.
If I use the below code on some standard XML it works fine. If I use
it on XML created from Excel I will get (will xmlread): Specified cast
is not valid.

I want to make a custom class in c#, which extends System.Xml.XmlNode class
of BCL.
Now in custom class, I have implement abstract methods of XmlNode class
also. Now when I am trying to run the class it gives an error that

Okay here is my question. I have an XSD and two pieces of
xml that look like this:
snippet1:
<myTag myattr="someVal"></myTag>

How can I convert unstructured flat files into structured XML? Are
there any scientific articles and tools that handles this subject?
Bye,
hakhan

I am transforming xml using XSLTransform which works fine. The xsl
file is stored on eg. C:\temp1 and the xml is loaded from c:\temp2.
All image files referenced in the stylesheet file are stored on the
same path as the stylesheet and are not used in the transform. How do

I have an XML doc and I am trying to write a utility thath will allow me to
change a particular word with my "title" section of theXML doc.  I would
like to look for a "word" in the title and then change only that "word" to
something else.  Below in XML file I would want to change ...

I have an xml doc and I am trying to write the values from xml file to a tab
delimited text file. Currently, what I am doing is I am reading xml file
through XpathNavigaotr and manipulating all the nodes,elements and attributes
than I am writing those values to a text file using ...

When a class contains a TimeSpan property, XmlSerializer doesn't work.  A
TimeSpan property is serialized like:
<MySpan />
I've read a number of posts that talk about why this happens and how to work

I'm trying to extract data from objects that contain xml that fits a
third party schema with it's own root namespace. I've added a
namespace manager that seemed to work most of the time but I never
fully understood why. I've now hit another problem. It might be code

I am working with XMLDocuments, and i go through it with XMLNode, and i want
know for each node the path in the XMlDocuments.
For instance for this XML i want get for each nodes the following:
testlayer

I want to store some system settings in XML, but I am new to it.  So
far, I am able to retrieve the attributes, but not the elements they
belong to (I hope my terminology is right).  For example, I can
retrieve "Clear", "AV1", "AV2", "BB", and "BB2" from the XML file

I'm trying to apply an XSL to a dataset contents. More specifically, I
want to apply an XSL to a dataset or an XmlDataDocument and put the
resulting transformed data back into another DataSet or simply to
modify the current DataSet. The first part is easy: