Joe,

I'm not really sure what you're asking here. Do you want to know how to convert your DataSet to an XML string? It's simply

DS.GetXML()

To read an XML string into a DataSet, do something like this:

Dim sr As StringReader  = new StringReader(XML)
DS.ReadXML(sr, XmlReadMode.InferSchema)

If I haven't exactly answered your questions, it's because I didn't exactly know what you were asking. But, maybe this will help anyway. <g>

~~Bonnie


>I want to create an XML string from data. I need to be able to store the contents of the string in a database. Everything I have seen talks about xml files... I don't want the IO I just want the data. So in a nutshell, SQL statement or dataset to fully qualified XML string. And how would I read that XML string into as dataset to bind to a control later?
>
>

    Dim DS As DataSet
>    Dim MyConnection As New SqlConnection
>    Dim MyCommand As SqlDataAdapter
>    MyCommand = New SqlDataAdapter(strSQL, SqlCn)
>    DS = New DataSet("MyCartDS")
>    MyCommand.Fill(DS, "Cart")
>' At this point my DS is happy and busting at
>' the seams with data ..

>I dont know how to go forward without a filetype IO :(
>
>My thanks in advance,