working with xml files without physically storing them.

[ballapraveen]

Hi All,
I need some clarification. I have a situation where I have to use XML files to update a database using vb.net or c#.net. We have a form by which we will get an XML file in the browser from another web site. Now we need to run a script to update a backend access database with that xml file.
My doubt is that can we access the xml file without storing the xml file on our system. I need to make the xml file invisible to the user yet accessible to the programmer to run the script. I know the scripting part but I doubt whether I can do it without storing the xml file.
I would appreciate of anyone can give me an idea of accessing the xml page directly from the browser without storing it.
Thanks.
Praveen

[Iron_Cross]

You can use it without writing it back to storage. Just look into the XmlReader and XmlDocument classes. Just don't save it back to the hdd.