Hi All, I am trying to write a generic tool that would do XML validation. i came up with the following few lines Dim oSettings As New XmlReaderSettings oSettings.ValidationType = ValidationType.Schema oSettings.ValidationFlags = XmlSchemaValidationFlags.ProcessInlineSchema Dim xmlr As XmlReader xmlr = XmlReader.Create(reader, oSettings) Dim myschema1 As XmlSchema = XmlSchema.Read(xmlr, AddressOf ValidationCallback) quite