mabuhay, im trying to convert the XML from a sample stock news page, http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=ROC, and convert it into a dataset so i can populate a gridview. i have this so far...

 Dim myRequest As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=ROC")
        Dim myResponse As WebResponse = myRequest.GetResponse()

        Dim rssStream As Stream = myResponse.GetResponseStream()
        Dim rssDoc As New XmlDocument()
        rssDoc.Load(rssStream).........

can someone tell me if im goin down the right path or am i doing something totally irrelivant. salamatz.

 Hi dTx,

Check this article I wrote a few months ago about reading XML and transforming it to DataSet

http://devpinoy.org/blogs/keithrull/archive/2008/03/27/how-to-read-xml-data-into-a-dataset.aspx

http://devpinoy.org/blogs/keithrull/archive/2008/04/17/howto-convert-an-xml-string-to-dataset.aspx

Basically, all you need to do is read is pass the Uri (URL) to the DataSet.ReadXML() and it'll do the job for you.

HTH