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Keith Henderson
I have an xml document loaded into a string that I need to parse. below is
the first few elements in the xml string.

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<xs:schema id="NewDataSet" xmlns=""
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xs:element name="NewDataSet" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element name="Table">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="CustomerShortName">
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:maxLength value="10" />
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="CreateDate" type="xs:dateTime" />
.... there is more I didn't show......

I need to step through it and if you look closely you see 2 keys
identifying column names, CustomerShortName and CreateDate

they are defined as
<xs:element name="CustomerShortName">
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:maxLength value="10" />
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:element>

and

<xs:element name="CreateDate" type="xs:dateTime" />

I need to step through the entire xml document and retrieve out
CustomerShortName, string, 10
and
CreateDate, dateTime

can someone show me how to parse this?
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Tom Shelton
In article <Click here to reveal e-mail address>, Keith Henderson wrote:
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You'll probably want to look at the documentation and example for
System.Xml.XmlTextReader....

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Tom Shelton [MVP]
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Cor Ligthert
Keith,

I would use the XMLnodereader, see this sample I have made for somebody
else.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=%239UdmXBkEHA.3848%40tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl&rnum=1

I hope this helps?

Cor
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CJ Taylor
If you need to "step through" XML you should use an SAX Parser. DOM Parsers
read in the entire document and then allow you to parse, SAX will actually
raise events for elements being read/parsed.

There is a free SAX Parser that comes with the Visual Basic Resource Kit I
believe.

-CJ

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Tom Shelton
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I think that XmlTextReader meets these requirements...

from the docs:

XmlTextReader Class
Represents a reader that provides fast, NON-CACHED, forward-only access
to XML data.

I don't think he really needs the resource kit....
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