can somebody tell me how to serialize/deserialize
a object containing a multi line string using the
XmlSerializer class. One of the both windows
linefeed chars get dumped somewhere down the road.

I am looking for the best way to run different Xpath expressions from a web
service, and return the appropriate XML data.  The data source that the web
service queries is an XML file, that is not very large (less than 2 MB).
I can retrieve the entire XML file, but I would like to ...

Given a node, how can one find out its index in the collection of nodes it
belongs to?
Thanks

I need to validate a XML document where some of the element names are
unnknown.
<xs:any processContents="lax"/> or "skip" allows me to do so.
But: I want to validate those elements - the only thing unknown is the

for some reason when i deploy my C# application on windows 2003 occasionaly
rdr[0].ToString() hangs where rdr is a System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.
Is there a fix for this? is my visual studio.net out dated?

I'm trying to read an xml config file in C#. To do this, I have used the
xsd.exe tool to create an xsd file from my xml, and to generate code to
read this xml file.
Here is a small sample of my xml file:

I can see from
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:6f-yXCR3f8kJ:www.readol.net/books/computer/W
Eb/XML%2520Programming/xmlproghtml/32ch08b.htm+%22metadata+about+any+entity%22&h
l=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3
how XML is transformed by XSL into a sorted HTML table. That is, the
XSL turns the ...

I'm trying to serialize a collection, which is the root element,
however the items in the collection contain derived classes, and thus
give an error without XmlArrayItem attributes. However I can't add
these to the field I'm copying from as its the root element, and so

I am trying to deserialize a very simply XML file and have the
following code to do it.  When I run the code, I keep getting this
error:   "An unhandled exception of type
'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in system.xml.dll.

I found a post about this exact issue:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.xml/browse_thread/thread/
1dfeb38170cb0b1/ea073666a4035bd5?lnk=st&q=decimal+parse+error+loading+dataset&rn
um=6&hl=en#ea073666a4035bd5
but it only shows how to correct the issue manually, ...

How to define an XML element with no value and no attribute?
<X>
    <Y/>
</X>

I have a xml file. when i am trying to load through XPathDocument and
try to get XPathNodeIterator its not working . my xml is loking like
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?>

i was given a task to display sql server data in ms word using xml. Im
currently doing research to accomplish the task. What i have in mind is to
create an xml template (or schema?) to load the sql server data first.Then
add the xml template in the ms word add-in option. Is it ...

I have an XMLDocument object that is attempting to parse an xml document
generated by a cold fusion page. The problem is that for some reason the cold
fusion page is generating a number of carriage returns preceding the XML
declaration. This is causing the following error:

I feel like this question has been half-answered on here for me a few
times, but I'm looking for a more complete solution.
I've got the results of a query being returned in XML and processed
with XSLT via XmlDocument and XslTransform in C#. It outputs a web