C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

XmlNode

Synopsis

This abstract class represents a node in a document. A node is the basic object described by the Document Object Model for XML. A node can be an element, an element’s attributes, the DOCTYPE declaration, a comment, or the entire document itself. Nodes are ordered in a hierarchical tree in which child, parent, and sibling relationships are “known” by each node.

The XmlNode class is the parent object of the specific node type classes. The properties of this class expose the intrinsic values of the node: NamespaceURI, NodeType, parent, child, sibling nodes, etc. The methods allow a node to add to or removed from a node tree (in the context of an XmlDocument or XmlDocumentFragment), with respect to a reference node.

public abstract class XmlNode : ICloneable, IEnumerable, System.Xml.XPath.IXPathNavigable {
// Public Instance Properties
   public virtual XmlAttributeCollection Attributes{get; }
   public virtual string BaseURI{get; }
   public virtual XmlNodeList ChildNodes{get; }
   public virtual XmlNode FirstChild{get; }
   public virtual bool HasChildNodes{get; }
   public virtual string InnerText{set; get; }
   public virtual string InnerXml{set; get; }
   public virtual bool IsReadOnly{get; }
   public virtual XmlNode LastChild{get; }
   public abstract string LocalName{get; }
   public abstract string Name{get; }
   public virtual string NamespaceURI{get; }
   public virtual XmlNode NextSibling{get; }
   public abstract XmlNodeType NodeType{get; }
   public virtual string OuterXml{get; } public virtual ...