Hi peeps,

I hope somebody can help me as I'm a little stuck.

I'm creating a component that deals with credit card payments. The component must create two xml files to be used with the CC web service.

I have created XSD's for the two xml files and a collection of payment objects that contain all details needed to be inserted into the xml file.

For each payment object within the collection I want to create a an xml file based on the appropriate xsd, thus the file will be correctly formed and populated with the default values. Then I can populate the appropriate elements within the file with the values from the payment object.

The problem that I have is that I'm unsure how to use the schema to create the basic XML file.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

As far as I know you can't serialise to order simply based on an XML schema.
You can add certain attributes to the class's properties to specify element names etc. if they don't match the ones in the class or you can override the whole serialisation process but it's more a manual job.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/83y7df3e.aspx

You can also take the other approach, create your class based on you schema using the XSD.exe tool in the .NET SDK. You get the basics of a class which can be fleshed out if necessary.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ToolXsdexe.asp

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

I'm currently having the same problem. Did you manage to create an xml file using the schema?

I have used xsd.exe for this as Joe has suggested above many times and it works well.
1. Look at the tutorial http://dotnetjunkies.com/QuickStartv.../XSDToCls.aspx
2. Make a class out of your xsd.
3. populate the class instance.
4. Serialise the class: http://dotnetjunkies.com/QuickStartv...bjFromXML.aspx

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Hi as far as i have understood ur problm.U have one XSD File
u want to convert it into xml file.
if this is the case
U can first convert the xmlschema in to dataset and then easily
u can convert dataset to xml....

yogs