Bonnie,

I will try your suggestion tonight. You see, you probably work in a nice orderly office where things are done by schedule. I, on the other hand, work in a fire department <g>. Once I put out one fire, another one breaks out and I rush out it. I put out (or I should say "contained" it <g>) the problem with external schema file with a bunch of TRY/CATCH in my code. And it is on my list of things to do to go back and test your suggestion to make things work as designed.
I will let you know.

>You're welcome, Dmitry ... have you had a chance to try this yet?
>
>~~Bonnie
>
>
>
>>Bonnie,
>>
>>Thank you very much for your message. I will try your suggestion. I didn't know of the method .ReadXmlSchema and from the example you posted, it should work. I actually just came back from the customer site installing the program without the schema file because I never could get it to work. But if your suggestion works, it will streamline my code by eliminating a bunch of TRY/CATCH.
>>
>>Again, thank you.
>>
>>>Dmitry,
>>>
>>>I tried that too and it didn't work. But, what will probably work is to first load the schema, then read the XML ... like this:
>>>
>>>

>>>this.oDataFromXML.ReadXmlSchema("TestDataSet_XSD_Test.xsd");
>>>this.oDataFromXML.ReadXml("TestDataSet_XSD_Test.xml", XmlReadMode.InferSchema)
>>>

>>>
>>>I didn't test with any defaults or anything though in my .xsd, so I'm not sure if this will work for what you're trying to do, but give it a try.
>>>
>>>~~Bonnie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I thought this thing was working last night and I should have just retired at that point <g>, but now I am having a problem again.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe someone sees what I am missing.
>>>>
>>>>I am trying to load an XML into a dataset. I created XML, then created XSD Schema. Then I load the XML as following code:
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>DataSet dstEmailList;
>>>>dstEmailList.ReadXml(@cEmailListXmlFileName);
>>>>// The cEmailListXmlFileName has a valid XML file name.
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>The problem is that the above code ignores the XSD file completely. I tried to modify the XSD file entering some garbage but I get no error on the ReadXml. The main issue is that the data types are not set correctly in the dataset because they are specified in the XSD file, which is being ignored.
>>>>
>>>>Here is the segment of the top of XML file where I specify the XSD:
>>>>
>>>>

>>>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>>>><EmailList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>>>>	xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="EmailList.xsd" >
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>Here is the top of the EmailList.xsd file:
>>>>
>>>>

>>>><xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" >
>>>>	<xsd:element name="EmailList">
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>Do you see anything wrong in the above code or the XML files?
>>>>
>>>>Thank you in advance for any help.