[RaeYoung]

I am trying to read in an XML document, add a record with a tag for the filename and write to a different XML document.

I have been told I must use serialization.

I generated an XSD from the file I am using for input. From the XSD, I created the VB class using XSD.EXE for the incoming XML.

I added the required record and tag for the filename and changed the name of the root record and created a second VB class for the outgoing XML.

I added the VB class for the incoming and outgoing XML to my project.

To deserialize and serialize the XML, I found the code here:
http://www.dreaminco...ation-in-vbnet/

I assume the first thing I need to do is Deserialize the XML file. To try to use the code, I put the following in my programme to read the incoming XML file:

s_text = XML_CONTROL.FromXml(l_s_SourcePath & l_s_Srcfilename, GetType(Envelope))

l_s_SourcePath is the full path of the folder containing the file
l_s_Srcfilename is the name of the file
Envelope is the root record of the incoming XSD

I get an error on the following line from the XML_CONTROL class:

obj = ser.Deserialize(xmlReader)

eException.Message "There is an error in XML document (1, 1)." String

Following the function line by line

 Dim ser As XmlSerializer
 ser = New XmlSerializer(ObjType)
 Dim stringReader As StringReader
 stringReader = New StringReader(Xml) ‘XML is filename including full path
 Dim xmlReader As XmlTextReader
 xmlReader = New XmlTextReader(stringReader) ‘stringreader is {System.IO.StringReader}
 Dim obj As Object
 obj = ser.Deserialize(xmlReader) ‘xmlReader is {System.Xml.XmlTextReader}

I think that once I get to the obj = ser.Deserialize line that xmlReader should have the contents of the file, but when I do a watch on:
xmlReader.Item(0).ToString

I get the ArgumentOutOfRange exception.

Any suggestions as to where I go from here?

[_HAWK_]

Not necessarily, use the XmlDocument and you can make a node with the ImportNode method on the first Xmldocument.

[RaeYoung]

Looks like the original code may have been missing a read. When I changed the StringReader to StreamReader and added a xmlReader.Read() before the Dim OBJ As Object, the deserialize worked.