Hi,

I am in the process of building a server/client app, exchanging messages in XML. One of these messages contain schema and dataset originating from a DataTable.
I would like to be able to read this XML back in to a DataSet or DataTable, but can only see an option to do this via a file. Any way of doing this with the XML available in a string variable?

HH

Most APIs that I know of provide a way of parsing XML supplied via an in-memory input stream, but the details vary depending on which products/platforms you are using. It helps to say.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I am using VB.NET.

Then if you look at the API specifications for System.Xml, you'll see that it's easy to invoke the parser to process an octet stream or character stream: it's not confined to processing a file.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

That is true... no problem there... but I would like to be able to define a new dataset or datatable and load it with the schema and data from the recieved XML... the methods readxmlshema seems only to accept a filestream.