Jim,

I'm assuming the XML has a schema with it. If so, try this (and you won't need to write it to a file):

// assuming XML is your string containing the XML
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
StringReader sr = new StringReader(XML);
ds.ReadXML(sr, XmlReadMode.InferSchema);
ds.AcceptChanges;

~~Bonnie

>Hello,
>
> I am using a web service that reports back the news. The return string is XML and is returned to a string variable. How would I write the XML to a file so I can put it into a dataset?