>Wow, that's pretty strange ... I've never seen WriteXml() do that. I thought maybe it was something different about defaults in VS2005, but I tried it in 2005 and it still didn't use that syntax.
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>I wonder what's causing it? You're not using the XmlWriteMode, are you? (not that that should matter, but I don't typically use that parameter).

This is the exact syntax I used:

        loDataSet.WriteXml(oApp.cHttpFat + lcFile, XmlWriteMode.IgnoreSchema)