Value of Type String cannot be converted to System.xml.xmlDocument

[Rafael Dominguez]

All,

Using Visual Studio 2008 Professional trying to read an xml file and assign
the value (the file content) to a variable so that I can pass the variable
as an XML document to another function.

The code below tells me that I cannot convert a type string to a
system.xml.xmldocument.

Dim xmldoc As New Xml.XmlDocument
Dim rdr As New StreamReader("C:\Meeting\NewMeeting.xml", Encoding.UTF8)
xmldoc = rdr.ReadToEnd ' Value of Type String cannot be converted to
System.xml.xmlDocument

Any help will be appriciated!

Rafael

[Micah Bell]

Well you could do this a number of ways, but this might get you started.

Dim myXMLDocument As New XmlDocument
Dim myXMLNodeList As XmlNodeList
Dim myXMLNode As XmlNode

myXMLDocument.Load("C:\test.xml")

myXMLNodeList = myXMLDocument.SelectNodes("/ParentNodeName/childNodeName")

For Each myXMLNode In myXMLNodeList
dim strTest as string = myXMLNode.Item("UserCredentials").InnerText
next

You can either loop through all the nodes or remove the For Each in which
you specify the record and item like
myXMLNOde(0).item(0).innertext

Hope that helps!

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[Rafael Dominguez]

Thanks Michael. But my issue is complicated so here it goes.

I thought that was the extent of my problem but what's really at work here
is going from XDocument (LINQ format) to xml.xmlDocument (standard Visual
Studio xml DOM?).

I really like the new LINQ Queries to mange xml becuase being such a newbie,
I can understand it much better.

That said, I have not figured out a way to pull out the "outerXml" from an
xml doc using the new LINQ language. On the function below, the
GetBytes(xmldoc.OuterXml) part requires a regular DOM xml doc as the new
LINQ format does not support that particular feature. So if there's a way
to get something similar to an "OuterXml" from a linq xml doc, than I'm
golden.

Thanks,

public XmlDocument PostXmlMessageRequest(XmlDocument xmldoc)
{
// Upon entering, xmldoc = messageRequest
// Upon exit, xmlReply = messageReply;

ASCIIEncoding encoder = new ASCIIEncoding();
XmlDocument xmlReply = null ;

// Post the <messageRequest> element to the conference center;
HttpWebRequest myReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(postingUrl);
myReq.Method = "POST";
myReq.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

HttpWebResponse myResp = null;
try
{
// Write the XML message to the request stream and
// send it to the conference center
byte[] byteArray = encoder.GetBytes(xmldoc.OuterXml);
myReq.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
Stream reqStream = myReq.GetRequestStream();
reqStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
reqStream.Close();

// Get the response from the conference center
myResp = (HttpWebResponse)myReq.GetResponse();
Stream respStream = myResp.GetResponseStream();
if (myResp.ContentType == "application/xml")
{
xmlReply = new XmlDocument();
xmlReply.Load(respStream);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// Log the error or implement other error handling routines
Console.WriteLine("Error: {0}\nStack trace: {1}",
e.Message, e.StackTrace);
}
finally
{
if (myResp != null)
myResp.Close();
}

return xmlReply;
}

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[Rafael Dominguez]

All, I'm user Visual Studio 2008/VSTO trying to read a DWORD registry value
which stores a user password and use to send an xml doc with httpWebRequest
as seen below. Wondering how to store and retrieve this kind of data from
the registry using VS.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb894286.aspx
<PlaceWareConfCenter authUser="apiuser" authPassword="Pa$$w0rd">
<CreateMeetingRequest
maxUsers="100"
name="ShipParty"
title="Come to celebrate">
<OptionList>
<TimeOption name="startTime" value="2007-10-27T14:00:00Z"/>
<TimeOption name="endTime" value="2007-10-27T18:00:00Z"/>
<StringOption name="timeZone" value="America/Los_Angeles"/>
<EnumerationOption name="meetingType" value="OneTime" >
<String>OneTime</String>
<String>MeetNow</String>
<String>Recurring</String>
</EnumerationOption>
</OptionList>
<FieldList>
<Name>name</Name>
<Name>meetingType</Name>
<Name>mid</Name>
<Name>presenterPassword</Name>
<Name>audiencePassword</Name>
</FieldList>
</CreateMeetingRequest>
</PlaceWareConfCenter>

Thanks,

Rafael

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