I am trying to use the UPS.com online tools to develop a class libary that
uses serialization to communicate with their XML APIs. When I use the class
libary to generate a TimeInTransitRequest object, the XML looks like this (I
substituted the user credentials):

How can I describe an XML like this:
<X>
    <Y/>
    <Z/>

Is there any way through which attributes of elements along with their
default value and possible values can be retrieved from the schema
using C#.
Any help will really be appreciated.

I've got two statements in my code that are both generating weird,
weird, weird messages:
The first one was,
Dim document As System.Xml.XmlDocument

How to access a network file path \\foo\bar.txt from an .aspx and from a
custom IHttpHandler?
How to specify which account that aspx application should use when doing
file IO from network paths?

We are using WebDAV to extract and save Exchange users EML files off.  I
have run into a problem when I try and get a list of emails within a
folder.  We use the following…
strQuery = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><D:searchrequest xmlns:D = \"DAV:\" >"

I am struggling with how to form the XPath expression to find the value of
an attribute value without case sensitivity.
I have tried the following, but I must be missing something simple.
"SOLUTIONS/SOLUTION[@id=*[translate(text(),

I remember that in 2003 there used to be a view where you could see
your XML file as a table.
Where did the "Data view" went in VS 2005?

(I forgot to mention that I'm using C#)
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When communicating with a server via webservices, I need to view and set the
timezone information for a simple object (it contains one DateTime and one

Using VB.NET 2.0 I have a simple routine that attempts transforms an
XmlDocument with an XSLT stylesheet into HTML.  Under the old 1.1
framework with XslTransform, everything worked fine.  Now using
XslCompiledTransform, the Transform method hangs.  My code:

I'm having trouble constructing the XmlSerializer without getting a
Configuration Exception(Only elements allowed: Line 3) in Dev Studio 2003.
When I remove the <system.diagnostics> node from my app.config I don't have
any issues but I wanted to keep the node.  Please let me know ...

perhaps a simple question, but some guidance would be great...
I have a webservice that churns out XML.
I need to create a VB.NET app to call the webservice, read the XML
response, and then perhaps iterate through it to display the content in

I'm trying the select a element based on values of two attributes.  In the
Xml doc i need to look at an attribute minVal and maxVal. if the Value I'm
passing in in the xPath is greate than min "and" less than max,  I'll want
to pull all the attributes of that element.

I have flat xml like this
<field name="a1"/>
<field name="a2" merge="true"/>
<field name="a3"/>

Hi. I want to assign an XML string to an XML attribute. This XML string must
undergo "escape" conversion so that the < and & symbols are converted in to
escaped equivalents.
Does the .Net library have a conversion method that does this? Note that I