Bill,

I don't know about the Mere Mortals Framework, but you can read XML into a
DataSet very easily w/ the .NET Framework.


DataSet ds = new DataSet();

ds.ReadXml("filename.xml", XmlReadMode.InferSchema);
ds.AcceptChanges();



If you have a large XML that you are reading, you want to create and add an XML Schema to the project, because reading it will be MUCH, MUCH faster.

You can create a Schema like this.



DataSet ds = new DataSet();

ds.ReadXml("filename.xml", XmlReadMode.InferSchema);
ds.WriteXmlSchema("file.xsd");



You can then, add the XSD to your project, and have Visual Studio .NET generate a DataSet and you will use a typed DataSet



MyDataSet ds = new MyDataSet();
ds.ReadXml("filename.xml");



I hope that helps.

Morgan