Kevin,

Does your XML file contain the schema, including the data types? Did you use WriteXML to write to the XML file?

>Here's a question on reading and writing XML Files.
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>Suppose I pull down some data from SQL Server into a DataSet. The data is a Customer ID [an integer type], and a description [character]. The contents of the data set honor the data types [int and char].
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>Then I write that dataset to an XML file, close the application, then re-open the application and read the XML file into a blank dataset, like so...
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>DataSet Ds = new DataSet();
>Ds.ReadXML("c:\\mymasterfile.xml");
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>The data comes back in, but both data types are character. Is there any way, when I originally write out the XML file, that I can get it to retain the data types, such that when I read the XML file back in, I get one integer column and one character column?
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>Thanks,
>Kevin