When I read a XmlDocument into a DataSet, the structure defined in the schema is created but the datarows are not being populated.

            Dim XMLreader As StringReader = New System.IO.StringReader(XMLstring)
            Dim DS As DataSet = New DataSet
            DS.ReadXml(XMLreader, XmlReadMode.ReadSchema)

            Dim dr As DataRow = DS.Tables(0).Rows(0)     ' <= error: "there is no row at position 0"

The rows collection has a count of 0. I know there around a hundred rows in the Xml string.

I googled around, but nearly all the examples are the same or similar to one I have here.

I would not mind if the xml string is flawed. but no error or exception is generated. The dataset's HasErrors reports false.

Any help would be great.