Excellent, thanks!

I have another question for you.  Actually, more of an approach.  My 
application is based on a plugin architecture.  Each plugin have settings 
that don't fit nicely into the My.Settings.* model.  Rather, it makes sense 
to represent them in XML (essentially serialized classes that are contained 
in the plugin).  Thus far, I have them stored in an XML document.  In your 
opinion, is this a good approach?  It seems a bit fragile.  Can you suggest 
another approach?

Thanks,

Craig

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> Craig Buchanan 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.
>
> Use an XmlNodeReader over the Suppliers XmlElement node e.g.
>   Dim doc As New XmlDocument()
>   doc.Load("file.xml")
>   Dim suppliers as XmlNode = 
> doc.SelectSingleNode("/Manufacturer/Suppliers")
>   Dim reader As XmlReader = New XmlNodeReader(suppliers)
>   ' now pass reader to Deserialze method of an XmlSerializer
>
>
>
>
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>
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