Craig,

I am lazy with XML files. I simple read them all into a dataset and process 
the tables.

ds.ReadXml(path)

Cor

"Craig Buchanan" <someone@m...> wrote in message 
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>i need to load the Node into a stream which can be fed to the 
>XmlSerializer. this is the challenge.
>
> <z.sessions@h...> wrote in message 
> news:48c946cb-e827-41ec-8678-8e1b0537fcfc@1......
> On Mar 11, 10:12 am, "Craig Buchanan" <some...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> I have an Xml file that I use as a database of information about a
>> manufactures products. It has the format:
>>
>> <Manufacturer>
>> <Products>
>> <Product id="1" name="product a" price="1.00" />
>> ...
>> </Products>
>> <Suppliers>
>> <Supplier id="1" name="supplier x" />
>> ...
>> </Suppliers>
>> </Manufacturer>
>>
>> I would like to be able to use the Suppliers node as the source for the
>> XmlSerializer's Deserialize and Serialize methods. I figure that I can 
>> load
>> an XmlDocument, then select the Suppliers node using an Xpath query
>> (//Supplers). The question is how to send this to the XmlSerialier.
>> Moreover, what approach should it take for the serialization?
>>
>
> I'm guessing that getting the path from an XmlDocument object will
> work just fine but that is the only thing you are going to be able to
> use it for. May as well dispose that object after getting the path
> from it. Of course, this only applies to Deserializing the object. You
> will not need the XmlDocument to Serialze, as the path will be in the
> object already, right?
>