XmlNameTable Class

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01/16/2013

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Table of atomized string objects.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System. . :: . .Object
System.Xml..::..XmlNameTable

Namespace: System.Xml
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class XmlNameTable

public class XmlNameTable

public ref class XmlNameTable

type XmlNameTable =  class end

public class XmlNameTable

The XmlNameTable type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	XmlNameTable	Initializes a new instance of the XmlNameTable class.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Add	When overridden in a derived class, atomizes the specified string and adds it to the XmlNameTable.
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	Get	When overridden in a derived class, gets the atomized string containing the same value as the specified string.
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

Several classes, such as XmlReader, use the XmlNameTable class internally to store attribute and element names. When an element or attribute name occurs multiple times in an XML document, it is stored only once in the XmlNameTable.

The names are stored as common language runtime (CLR) object types. This enables you to do object comparisons on these strings rather than a more expensive string comparison. These string objects are referred to as atomizedstrings.

XmlNameTable is implemented in the NameTable class.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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