I have a set of nested object classes that now i have to
serialize/deserialize to make webservice calls. I was thinking wouldn't it be
better to use an XML Data document  instead of using classes so i can
import/export xml with ease and also i can  update my schema without

I'm using an XmlValidatingReader to read an XML document and parse it against
my schema.  While I'm reading each node, I need to determine if the schema
allows an ID attribute for the node.  The ID is optional so it may not exist
in the XML document.  Is there a way to determine ...

Hello Gurus,
I want to put some restrictions on my attribute tag in my XML Schema, anyone out there have any idea how to do that.
here is my XML and the XML Schema
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Im trying to return xml from sql.
The xml is made up of different fragments, some using FOR XML ... syntax.
The result is a valid xml doc.
There is a working stored proc that returns the xml

Can a class library have a app.config file. Reason for asking is that the
microsoft application blocks all read from myApp.exe.config. How can you use
the application blocks if you do not have an app.config file.
Wish someone from microsoft would answer this, I am at a loss.

I was trying to deserialize my xml file (I enclose it below ) into a class.
So I generated an xsd file given my xml using the MS xsd tool; then I
generated the corresponsing C# class (using the MS xsd tool): the
UserSecurityData class. When I try to execute my app to deserialize my ...

Hi!  I'm not yet that familliar with the Xml namespace, but have been
fooling around with GetElementsByTagName, ChildNodes and InnerText.  I'm
wondering how others would approach extracting values out of this XML (see
below).

How to recognize whether file has XML format or not?
Here is the code segment:
XmlDocument* pDomDocument = new XmlDocument();
try

I have a word document that I need to send it as an attachment to an XML
file. Basically, converting into byte array or using some encoding
mechanism. This has to be done through XML serialization in c#. Is it
possible to do it through xml serialization ?

I have the XML file which has a structure similar to one I pasted at the end
of this post. As you can see many elements are using different id attributes.
For example element Window uses WinID attribute as ID, the ViewData uses
ViewID attribute as an ID and so on. I need to read ...

I had a post earlier that was covering this issue, and a solution was never
posted to that thread.  I did however find several other similar threads and
most had the following comment in them:
"This is a problem that was introduced by a bug fix made between version 1.1

 How can I create xsl for the following xml?
*******************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<result state="success">

Can someone please explain why this happens?
The expected output is 3, but uncommenting line 7 makes the output 0.
Why ???
VB.NET code: ** note the commented line, this is the culprit **

i got this xml code:
    <formmonthnames>
        <monthnames id="">January</monthnames>
        <monthnames id="">February</monthnames>

I am desiging validation method for our application. The application stores
configuration and other data in the XML file. I want each time app opens XML
file to validate the file against scheme.
The XML file will definitely change in the future, so the validation scheme