When you WriteXml from a DataSet, the number is already formatted with the decimal inside of the number. The DataSet doesn't support writing out this information to the schema file. I wouldn't be surprised to see change in the future.

>Quite shocking.
>
>How do you pass numbers with a decimal portion?
>
>>From what I can tell, these attributes are not supported in .NET.
>>
>>>I create a dataset from XML with one of the fields defined as below in the schema.
>>>
>>>

>>><xsd:element name="hoursworked">
>>>   <xsd:simpleType>
>>>	<xsd:restriction base="xsd:decimal">
>>>		<xsd:totalDigits value="5"/>
>>>		<xsd:fractionDigits value="2"/>
>>>	</xsd:restriction>
>>>   </xsd:simpleType>
>>></xsd:element>
>>>

>>>
>>>When I WriteXML back to XML I loose the totaldigits and fractiondigits as seen below.
>>>
>>>

>>><xs:element name="hoursworked">
>>>       <xs:simpleType>
>>>           <xs:restriction base="xs:decimal" />
>>>       </xs:simpleType>
>>></xs:element>
>>>

>>>
>>>Anyone know how to prevent this?