If I have an xml file and want to set some properties in it (read and write
it I guess), what is the best alternative?
I don't want to use xlst - this seems like I should be able to just specify
the node and replace the parameter similar to what I am doing now in

Here is the situation. I've looked all day about this subject over the net
and I'm kinda confused...
I was ask to generate, on a daily basis, some XML files from a SQL Server
2000 database.

I've developed a web service whose output is an XML document that
conforms to a schema.
Is it bad practice / unacceptable not to have a namespace associated
with my document?

I don't know why, but I can't seem to get this to work:
Public Sub DoSomething()
 Dim sb as New StringBuilder()
 sb.Append("http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?")

How do I write a schema that is only validating elements: 1,4,7,8,9 and
ignores every other element? I also need to not to care about the order
of the elements or how many are in between elements that I am trying to
validate.

I would like to restructure my xml with a generic style sheet to perform the following.  I want to be able to inspect a group of nodes then place them into a collection node if there are more than one at the same level with the same name.  This should occur as well if sub-levels ...

Background:  I have taken an excel spreadsheet with the formatting I
want, saved it as XML, then converted it to an XSL document to use it
as a sort of template.  Added some for-each select functionality and am
able to populate it with data from good old Northwind.

I have an abstract base class and two derived classes that I want to
serialize and deserialize with schema validation. When I serialize
instances of the derived classes the XmlSerializer adds the
xsi:type="DerivedClass" attribute and the Instance Namespace. When I

I have an XML document that is generated from Infopath,  I need to change
the value of a namespace that is defined in a node in the form:
<xsf:xDocumentClass "xmlns:my=valuehere">.
when i navigate to the namespace value it is read only and cannot be

I'm working on a .NET application that requests an XML document, in
string form, from a legacy COM component, then deserializes it.  In
order to deserialize the document, the string needs to be placed into a
stream.  AFAIK, .NET strings are UTF-16 encoded, but the COM component

Is there any way to disable the data validation the the XmlDocument
class performs?
Thanks,
Roshawn

Hello NG!
Using the System.Xml.XmlDocument I want to create such a xml-file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RootElement xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

I have to decide on the appropriate wire protocoal to use when designing an
XML web service. the web service i have developed will be deployed inside
the corporate firewall, while the clients will be located on both sides of
the perimeter. But no additional ports can be opened in ...

I have a simple class with a StringBuilder as a property.  When I
serialize it, I get this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TestMe>

This seems like it should be really easy, but I cannot seem to make it work.
I am trying to retrieve the text value of an element named "child2Element"
from an XML file in a .NET (v 1.1) with an XPath expression.  In an XSLT
document I would use <xsl:value-of