I don't know if this helps or not.
C#
private DataSet GetDataSet1()
{
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
sb.Append("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><items>");
sb.Append("<item>");
sb.Append("<key>abc</key>");
sb.Append("<value>Apple Berry Cat</value>");
sb.Append("<time>" + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() + "</time>");
sb.Append("</item>");
sb.Append("<item>");
sb.Append("<key>def</key>");
sb.Append("<value>Dough Elephant Fence</value>");
sb.Append("<time>" + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() + "</time>");
sb.Append("</item>");
sb.Append("<item>");
sb.Append("<key>hij</key>");
sb.Append("<value>House Igloo Jumprope</value>");
sb.Append("<time>" + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() + "</time>");
sb.Append("</item>");
sb.Append("</items>");
System.IO.MemoryStream ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
System.IO.StreamWriter writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter(ms);
writer.Write(sb.ToString());
writer.Flush();
ms.Position = 0;
ds.ReadXml(ms);
return ds;
}
VB.NET
Private Function GetDataSet1() As DataSet
Dim ds As New DataSet
Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder
sb.Append("<?xml version=""1.0""?><items>")
sb.Append("<itemid>20002</itemid>")
sb.Append("<friendlyname1>Macintosh</friendlyname1>")
sb.Append("<friendlyname2>MA</friendlyname2>")
sb.Append(("<time>" + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() + "</time>"))
sb.Append("<parentid>2001</parentid>")
sb.Append("</item>")
sb.Append("</items>")
Dim ms As New System.IO.MemoryStream
Dim writer As New System.IO.StreamWriter(ms)
writer.Write(sb.ToString())
writer.Flush()
ms.Position = 0
ds.ReadXml(ms)
Return ds
End Function 'GetDataSet1
"Brian Parker" <be******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Here's a snippet of code I have:
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DataSet ds = new DataSet();
string strXMLFileName = Path.GetTempFileName();
StreamWriter sw = File.AppendText( strXMLFileName );
sw.WriteLine(@"<?xml version='1.0'?>");
sw.WriteLine(@"<Results>");
ServiceReply SearchResultData = CategoryWebService.EndRetrieveStateData(
iaCategoryHandle );
sw.WriteLine( SearchResultData.CategoryXML[ 0 ] );
sw.WriteLine(@"</Results>");
sw.Close();
ds.ReadXml( strXMLFileName );
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"SearchResultData.CategoryXML[ 0 ]" is some XML returned from a web
service. I want to take this XML, prepend it with the 2 lines and
append the last line and then convert it into a dataaset object. But, I
don't want to use a file if possible.
How can get I accomplish what is being done above without the use of the
file?
-BEP