Einar,

Have you looked at the second paramater of the ReadXML() method? Look into XmlReadMode and see if that helps.

~~Bonnie




>I am having a hard time understanding this (might be because it is Friday afternoon <s>).
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>I have a dataset with one table (the table has defined columns but no rows). I wish to populate the dataset with data from an XML file (with an inline schema).
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>Something like this:
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>oDS.ReadXML("myXml.xml");
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>This works just fine as long as the XML file has the same inline schema as the dataset that I am trying to read into, but lets say I am trying to read an XML file with a different inline schema into my dataset. I expected exceptions to be thrown but instead no exceptions were thrown and no data is read into the dataset.
>Is there a way to know if an "invalid" XML file is attempted to be read into a dataset?
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>I guess I can check if the table row count is zero, but that could also mean other things.
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>Any info (relevant that is <s>) would be appreciated.
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>Thanks,
>Einar