Dear Ethernet of Unquestionable Knowledge,
       Re: Advise, Guidance and Pointers with XML
Oh omnipotent one(s) please help me ... I'm reasonably new to all the
XML stuff and although clear on the basic concepts of XML, however I'm

Sorry if this seems like a newbie question, because I *am* rather new
to XML
I have a string with XML content
string s = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?><Service

I ran into a very strange error tonight. I was working with web services
and typed datasets. The web server I was using happens to be on the
other end of a virtual network (Hamachi).
Everything was working fine. I added one more row of data to the table

Does anyone know if it is possible, and if so how, to perform validation of
a simple non XML string against certain XSD restrictions, without having the
entire XML document to validate against the schema.
To elaborate -

I like to use the XmlTextWriter to write some SVG files.
But in some cases, I need the '&' as '&' and not as &amp;.
Example: <glyph unicode="&#x4c;"/>
Some code-snippet:

Hi m not able to convert the node values of a XML file to Hashtable
Actaully i need to traverse the XML Nodes again and again and want to pick
values
on filters

Is xpath 2.0 in Visual Studio.Net 2005? If not, how would I integrate it
into an application? Is there a COM component or dotnet component available
to do this?
Derek

I'm trying to evaluate a sum expression trougth .NET 2
System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator object.
My code is :
Dim document As New System.Xml.XmlDocument()

Hi all, I'm a newbie in .net xml programming, so please be patient. And
sorry for my uncorrect english, too.
I'm going to explain my problem:
I've built a web service which responds to ferries timetable requests.

Does the xsd.exe command line support paths with spaces?
For example the xsd.exe /o: option specifies the output file name. How can I
specify an output file path that has a space?
I'v tried googling up and down and cannot find an answer.

How to access the total number of child nodes from a parent node. For
example, I would like to get the total number of child nodes from
<parent1> and <parent2> node. The SelectNodes method return the total
number of <folder> nodes (9) regardless of calling from the <parent1>

I have a document like so (Its actually a serilization of an Object)
<Person xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <BirthDate>8/31/1971</BirthDate>

I have this small snippet below and i want to save some data back to the xml
file.
So i looked for a node and checked if the node value is the same as a
textbox value

How can I get the full XML path (as string) of a specific XmlNode ?

I m trying to return an object (of my own written class) from a web
service that contains jagged Arrays as public variables. Asp.Net is
showing me the its serialized version on the browser when i invoke the
service during test.