Excuse me,  I mean they fail when I try to read them into MS Access using
the "Import XLM format ". (The XLM text is viewable in IE explorer)
I need to write an Access module that will load the data into Access tables.
I am trying to program using MSXML.

here's a sample of an XML file
http://www.landxml.org/schema/LandXML-1.0/samples/EaglePoint/DivideHW.XML


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hgeron


"Joe Fawcett" wrote:

> "hgeron" <hgeron@d...> wrote in message 
> news:82D6C4AE-23D5-4A37-B31F-CF090CD2AFB9@m......
> > When I try to read any of my XLM files, the read fails because some of the
> > elements (or attributes) are very big.  I thought the XSD file listed at 
> > the
> > begininng
> > of the file would relay the data types needed.  But as far as I can tell,
> > this does
> > not happen.  When I try to access the named file in internet explorer, I 
> > get
> > a message the file cannot be read. Yet, I have downloaded it.  Here are a 
> > few
> > of the references given in my XML files...
> >
> > ....:schemaLocation=
> >
> > "http://www.landxml.org/schema/LandXML-1.0
> >
> > http://www.landxml.org/schema/LandXML-1.0/LandXML-1.0.xsd"
> >
> > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> >
> > xmlns="http://www.landxml.org/schema/LandXML-1.0">
> >
> > I am not sure which reference I should check, none of them
> > seems to work for the XML files I have tried with samples code
> > I have tried.
> >
> > The XSD referenced above is about 70 printed pages long.
> > Is MSXML supposed to use this as a reference on how to parse
> > the XLM file?
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > hgeron
> 
> Normally IE only fails if the XML is badly formed, not nested elements, 
> invalid characters etc.
> IE doesn't validate when loading, even if schemas are specified. Not sure 
> why your file fails, can you provide a link to it?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Joe Fawcett -  XML MVP
> 
> 
> http://joe.fawcett.name 
> 
> 
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