XObject.NodeType Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml.Linq

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Xml.XDocument.dll

Source:

XObject.cs

Gets the node type for this XObject.

C#

public abstract System.Xml.XmlNodeType NodeType { get; }

Property Value

XmlNodeType

The node type for this XObject.

Examples

The following example uses this method to retrieve the node type for a variety of nodes.

C#

// Note that XNode uses XmlNodeType, which is in the System.Xml namespace.  
XDocument xmlTree = new XDocument(  
    new XComment("a comment"),  
    new XProcessingInstruction("xml-stylesheet", "type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"hello.xsl\""),  
    new XElement("Root",  
        new XAttribute("Att", "attContent"),  
        new XElement("Child1",  
            new XCData("CDATA content")  
        ),  
        new XElement("Child2",  
            new XText("Text content")  
        )  
    )  
);  

foreach (XNode node in xmlTree.DescendantNodes())  
{  
    Console.WriteLine(node.NodeType);  
    if (node.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)  
    {  
        foreach (XAttribute att in ((XElement)node).Attributes())  
            Console.WriteLine(att.NodeType);  
    }  
}  

This example produces the following output:

Comment  
ProcessingInstruction  
Element  
Attribute  
Element  
CDATA  
Element  
Text  

Remarks

Because all classes that derive from XObject contain a NodeType property, you can write code that operates on collections of concrete subclass of XObject. Your code can then test for the node type of each node in the collection.

Applies to

See also

• LINQ to XML overview