I have a problem which I think is sure easy enough that it would have been
solved already. I am looking for some pointers here -
I have an XML document like this:
<root>

I wish to get a count of nodes in an xml file in vb.net, so I am using the
following, as a simple example:
MyCount = xmlNodePart.Current.Select.//MyNode/Record[*]).Count
I saw in some xml specs that instead of [*] it should be [@*], but that does

I've created some c# classes from Xsds.
The classes have namespace attributes in the XmlRootAttributes.
Accordingly, they will NOT deserialize with the XmlSerializer unless the
same namespace is defined.

First of all, a confession.  This is a cross post from the
microsoft.public.dotnet.general list.  I posted there not realising that
this list existed.  Apologies to those who read both lists.  I'll do my
best to prevent two separate conversations developing.

Here are three things that I thought would be equivalent but are not.  Just
wondering why:
XmlElement foo = doc.CreateElement("foo");
// load it up with a body

I have a xml file like the following.
<?xml version="1.0">
<data>
<idef units="Vin,Vout,E">

Hi...
We've got a lot of places in our code where we read relatively small xml
user preference blocks.  Currently that's creating a new XmlDocument in every
spot.  I was thinking we might see some speed improvements by having one,

Hi...
I've been trying to improve the performance of our xml handling, so I've
been doing some timing tests lately and ran across something I thought odd -
XPathDocument seems slightly slower than XmlDocument.  I've run the tests

how to validate xades xml against xades and xmlsig schemas? i have
this sample:
XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(@"..\..\Data\xades_zep-
epes.xml");

Currently I am using XmlReader (but I am open to other options) to parse an
XML file, and I would like to be able to stop/break the current parse
(simple enough) and then resume it later (say after a reboot). Is there any
way to get the current location in the file that the ...

How to do group by in XSLT ?
I tried on the following codes:
<files>
 <file name="swablr.eps"     size="4313" project="mars"/>

How can I remove an empty namespace with XElement ?
Using the below code I wish to apply the namespace only to the root node
<urlset> but I obtain also an empty xmlns="" on the child nodes.
Thanks