>I was wondering if anybody can suggest a way around this issue.
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>I created an XML and a schema file (.XSD). The XSD specifies types of all elements in the XML. One of the elements is boolean. The XSD also specifies the default value as following:
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><xsd:element name="req_entry" default="false" type="xsd:boolean"/>		
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>Everything works well.. unless the value in the element "req_entry" in the XML is empty. Then an exception is thrown saying that "The string '' is not a valid Boolean value". I thought that specifying the default value (false) in the schema file will set the value as false. But it does not. Here is the code of how I am loading the XML:
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>DataSet myDataSet = new DataSet();
>myDataSet.ReadXmlSchema("MySchema.xsd");
>myDataSet.ReadXml("MyXml.xml");
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In that dataset, do you have any null values?