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    <p>When a typed DataSet is written to XML using ds.GetXml the columns with null values are removed from the XML. I know this is because the schema is not written etc. but is there a way to override this without having to parse through the DataSet and convert all database nulls to empty string before writing the XML?</p> <hr> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> additional information:</p> <p>1)My main task is to take the DataSet and stream it to a WebRequest. So I am creating an XML doc</p> <pre><code>Dim xmldoc As New Xml.XmlDocument() xmldoc.LoadXml(dsUpload.GetXml) </code></pre> <p>and then uploading the xmldoc on a HTTpWebRequest(req) like this </p> <pre><code>Using xw As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter(req.GetRequestStream, System.Text.Encoding.Default) xw.Formatting = Formatting.Indented xmldoc.WriteTo(xw) xw.Close() End Using </code></pre> <p>2) I am talking about DBNull</p> <p>3) I need these columns to appear because the site I am uploading to needs all the tags to be included so they can parse it ( must be a legacy system)</p> <hr> <p>EDIT</p> <p>1) I agree the code is not efficient,but what i failed to mention is the uploading method is generic method in another class. Hence it accepts a XMLDoc because this same method services the upload of dataset as xml and a hardcoded string of XML</p> <p>2) Yes agree that only the System.String can be transformed to String.Empty.And thats mostly what my dataset has.</p> <p>3) LOL about the legacy system comment. Here is more ridiculous stuff.I think they probably parse the XML like they would a comma separated file.Anytime there is a comma in the data it throws it off!! :)</p>
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