[New Article] Using Regex and The XML Classes To Parse Your Log Files

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• Roy,
  
  
  I keep wondering why developers choose to use the DataSet which is a relational data structure which kind off understands XML for their XML processing needs instead of using the XmlDocument which is actually an XML data structure. I'd never think of using the DataSet if I wanted to load and store XML but it seems a lot of developers such as yourself believe this is the way to go.
  

• Dare: The reason I use the Dataset, is to be able to give the user an "SQL like" way of searching, instead of using XPath queris syntax. SQL is a bit more natural. That's the only reason, though. I agree, XMLDocument is the way to go when you want to just load up and search XML stuff..