Why use xpathnavigator

Improve this answer. Dirk Vollmar Dirk Vollmar k 53 53 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Now instead of viewing all titles throughout the xml file, what would be the easiest way of displaying all information about each node?

That is, display title, author first name, author last name etc. Deserialising to a class object is your best bet for reuse. Ashif Nataliya Ashif Nataliya 2 2 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.

Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Explaining the semiconductor shortage, and how it might end. Some Microsoft people says that they are going XPathNavigator way. XPathNavigator is based on its own data model.

It is closer to XMLInfoset than literal xml document structure. For example, it has no document type node. It always indicates only one node. It can be cloned using Clone method. You will have to use this method for example when you would like to compare two nodes. There are several navigation methods. To resolve the error, remove the white-space character s that precede the first node in the books. Download Books. XPathNavigator Class. XPathDocument Class. XPath Examples. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

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Note This example uses a file named Books. Note This code segment only walks through the descendents of the root node and not the entire tree. Is this page helpful?