Hello,
I am using vb.net and trying to write a local copy of a strongly typed
dataset as a diffgram when the user is offline, so that when they connect to
the server again their changes can be sent back. I am writing the diffgram
using:

dataset.writexml(filename,xmlwritemode.diffgram).

If I load the original data from the server, then write it as a diffgram,
then exit, then run the program again (this time offline) and load the
diffgram, all works fine. However, if I then write the diffgram again, from
the same dataset but this time with the local copy of the data (which has
just been loaded from the diffgram), then exit, then run the program again
and try and load the diffgram I get an xmlexception with errorcode
"Xml_badnamechar" and the message "The ':' character, hexadecimal value 0x3A,
cannot be included in a name. Line 9983, position 49."
This is presumably because one of my field names includes a ':' (which I now
suspect may have been a mistake!). But why does it not cause a problem the
first time round, and is there anyway of making writexml encode the offending
characters?

I would be very grateful for any help,

Edward Murray

Hi,

I am having exactly the same problem:
The first time I load a stronlgy-typed dataset from the (SQL-) server and
write it as a diffgram with MyDataset.WriteXml(fileTemp,
xmlWriteMode.DiffGram), I get a well-formed xml file that I can reload again
with MyDataset.ReadXml(fileTemp, xmlReadMode.DiffGram). The first time I
execute this, fileTemp does not exist yet and is created by the call to
WriteXML.

The second time I execute the same code, fileTemp does exist and should be
overwritten by the call to WriteXml. But it produces badly formed xml instead.

I suspect that this has nothing to do with a bad field name, but with the
way the output file is opened.

What is 'filename' in your code? Is it a Stream, a TextWriter, or a String
with the path to a file? I have the feeling that this works if you use a file
path, but not when you use a stream.

Can you send (part of) the resulting xml file, so that I can verify whether
you get a similar result as me? In my case, some of the xml is repeated after
the closing </diffgr:diffgram> tag.

Thnx in advance,

Flip


"edwardmur" wrote:

> Hello,
> I am using vb.net and trying to write a local copy of a strongly typed
> dataset as a diffgram when the user is offline, so that when they connect to
> the server again their changes can be sent back. I am writing the diffgram
> using:
>
> dataset.writexml(filename,xmlwritemode.diffgram).
>
> If I load the original data from the server, then write it as a diffgram,
> then exit, then run the program again (this time offline) and load the
> diffgram, all works fine. However, if I then write the diffgram again, from
> the same dataset but this time with the local copy of the data (which has
> just been loaded from the diffgram), then exit, then run the program again
> and try and load the diffgram I get an xmlexception with errorcode
> "Xml_badnamechar" and the message "The ':' character, hexadecimal value 0x3A,
> cannot be included in a name. Line 9983, position 49."
> This is presumably because one of my field names includes a ':' (which I now
> suspect may have been a mistake!). But why does it not cause a problem the
> first time round, and is there anyway of making writexml encode the offending
> characters?
>
> I would be very grateful for any help,
>
> Edward Murray