August 2003
Beginner to intermediate
600 pages
12h 57m
English
If there is one area where the XmlDocument API is thin, it is in providing the ability to search an XmlDocument. There are several methods that the XmlDocument does not support since the .NET Compact Framework lacks support for XPath or DTDs. On the desktop .NET Framework, the methods SelectNode and SelectSingleNode accept XPath query strings as parameters.
Also, the GetElementById method, which searches the document for the element with the specified ID, is not supported, because there is no DTD support. This deserves an explanation. An element's ID is a string value of a specific attribute. An attribute is specified as the special ID attribute in the DTD. Since the .NET Compact Framework does not support ...
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