>>>>>Hey gang,
>>>>>Here is my situation - I am attempting to build a generic Crystal Reports class where the end-user provides a path to the .rpt file, a path to an .xml file, and other options on how to export the report. A requirement is for the .xml file to have an external schema.
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>>>>>In my class, I am importing the .xml into an un-typed DataSet using the DataSet.ReadXML method and passing that into the report. The problem is that all of my fields are converted to strings somehow and it my report I get errors when I try to multiply two numeric values in a formula.
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>>>>>How can I make this work so the types of my values are preserved?
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>>>>>Thanks!!!
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>>>>>EDIT, this isn't an ASP.NET post - somehow that got incorrectly set.
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>>>>DataSet.ReadXML has a couple of overloads. Did you look into them? One of the overloads should read the schema of the XML before reading the data.
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>>>Yes, I looked at those but I think they only read an inline schema. I found a ReadXMLSchema method where I can define the actual .xsd file and then the DataSet becomes strongly typed. However I can't seem to successfully read the data in using ReadXML after I do this.
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>>Try using xmlreadmode IgnoreSchema or InferSchema in ReadXml after using ReadXmlSchema.
>>Are you sure that your data matches your schema?
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>Einar,
>Using teh InferSchema option was the key. It works now. Thanks!!

Glad to hear it works. I also use InferSchema.