Hi,<BR>I went through the most recent XML Serialization Article on the site. It worked fine. However the example doesn't use a code behind which is what I wanted. When I tried to move the code into the aspx.vb it seems to trip up on the XML tags that were interspersed in the script.<BR>For example the first tag read:<BR><BR><XMLElement(ElementName:="Property_Name")> _<BR><BR>which it did not like. I tried changing it to<BR><BR><XMLElement(ElementName:="Property_Name")><BR><BR>It didn't like that either. I am pretty certain there is a way to do it. <BR>What is the magic encantation?? <BR><BR>thanks, <BR>jima<BR>Jima said:<BR>> it seems to trip up on the XML tags that <BR>> were interspersed in the script<BR><BR>What do you mean by 'trip up'? What error message are you seeing?Hi Frodo,<BR>Yeah I should have been a bit more specific. Sorry.<BR><BR>When I try to run the page I get build errors. 3 of them. One for each of the XML tags in the code. The error msg reads:<BR>Expected one of 'Dim', 'Const', 'Public', 'Private', 'Protected', 'Friend', 'Shadows', 'ReadOnly' or 'Shared'.<BR><BR>The first line of code to trigger this error looks like this:<BR><XmlRoot(ElementName:="Class_Person")> <BR><BR>.NET places that nifty squiggly line under the final ">" char in each line.<BR><BR>Thanks for taking the time to help out.<BR>jima<BR>