Bill,

If you do use the DataSet.ReadXML() to read an XML file that is rather large, you can see some performance issues. I would either create a Typed DataSet for it, or try ds.ReadXml("filename.xml", XmlReadMode.IgnoreSchema)

Morgan

>Bill,
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>>I am referring to the mmBusinessObject.ReadXmlFileToDataSet(). Used in a business object, I have managed to create a DataSet with the above functionality, but am unable to address the objects (data elements) to populate the DataSet.
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>Gotcha...that method is best used for XML files with in-line schemas. Ultimately, as I mentioned previously, you can simply use one of the DataSet.ReadXML() overloads to read the XML file into a DataSet.
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>Regards,