Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework

Mapping DataTable Columns to XML Node Types

As you've seen in the various sample functions, when a DataSet is serialized to XML, all of the columns (DataColumn objects) for each of the set's DataTable objects are output as XML elements. This might be fine for simple demos, but in a practical setting it probably won't be what you want all the time. To aid in controlling how DataColumn information is serialized to XML (in terms of the node type used), the DataColumn has a property called ColumnMapping that is set to any of the MappingType enumeration values shown in Table 8-1.

Table 8-1. MappingType Enumeration Values

Member Name	Description
Attribute	Maps the column to an attribute of the element having the same name as the column parent's table name. ...