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any way to avoid this? I note that there isn't an overload to WriteXml() that allows writing the XML without the "pretty" formatting, which would probably do the trick.
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hi Steve, are you sure about this? What are you passing the WriteXml method?

Check out

DataSet.WriteXml(XmlWriter) ...

... XmlWriter is implemented by XmlTextWriter, and XmlTextWriter has Formatting, Indentation, and IndentChar members.

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