XmlTextReader.BaseURI Property

Definition

Gets the base URI of the current node.

C#
public override string BaseURI { get; }
C#
public override string? BaseURI { get; }

Property Value

The base URI of the current node.

Examples

The following example displays the base URI for each of the nodes.

C#
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;

public class Sample
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    XmlTextReader reader = null;

    try
    {
        //Load the reader with the XML file.
        reader = new XmlTextReader("http://localhost/baseuri.xml");

        //Parse the file and display the base URI for each node.
        while (reader.Read())
        {
            Console.WriteLine("({0}) {1}", reader.NodeType, reader.BaseURI);
         }
     }

     finally
     {
       if (reader!=null)
         reader.Close();
     }
  }
} // End class

The example uses the file, baseuri.xml, as input.

XML

<!-- XML fragment -->
<book genre="novel">
  <title>Pride And Prejudice</title>
</book>

Remarks

Note

Starting with the .NET Framework 2.0, we recommend that you create XmlReader instances by using the XmlReader.Create method to take advantage of new functionality.

A networked XML document is comprised of chunks of data aggregated using various W3C standard inclusion mechanisms and therefore contains nodes that come from different places. DTD entities are an example of this, but this is not limited to DTDs. The base URI tells you where these nodes came from. If there is no base URI for the nodes being returned (for example, they were parsed from an in-memory string), String.Empty is returned.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1

See also