Bonnie,
Thanks for the reply. I was acctually going to write that I had been looking at the ReadXml() overload that you are sugesting, but at first glance that overload didn't seem to help me (but maybe I will think clearer after I get some supper and maybe a Guiness in my hand <s>)
Have you used the overload of ReadXml() that has two arguments (string and some Xml mode or something)?
Einar

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