Process All Nodes in a Document
Problem
You want to iterate through all nodes in an XML tree and display or modify the related information.
Solution
Create a generic procedure for processing the node, and call it recursively.
Discussion
The XmlDocument stores a tree of XmlNode objects. You can walk through this tree structure recursively to process every node.
For example, consider the following code, which displays information about every node in a document. A depth parameter tracks how many layers deep the nesting is and uses it to format the output with a variable-sized indent.
Public Module XmlOuputTest Public Sub Main() ' Load the document. Dim Doc As New XmlDocument Doc.Load("orders.xml") ' Start the node walk at the root node (depth = 0). DisplayNode(Doc.DocumentElement, ...
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