This sucks. Look like I will have to detect if the field 'hoursworked' is in the XML, then use STRTRAN to stuff in the extra info into the XML.

Thanks for your help and patience.

>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?