XPathNavigator.InnerXml Property
Definition
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Gets or sets the markup representing the child nodes of the current node.
public:
virtual property System::String ^ InnerXml { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };public virtual string InnerXml { get; set; }member this.InnerXml : string with get, setPublic Overridable Property InnerXml As StringProperty Value
A String that contains the markup of the child nodes of the current node.
Exceptions
The InnerXml property cannot be set.
Examples
The following example uses the InnerXml property to display the contents of the first book element in the contosoBooks.xml file and its child nodes in the XPathNavigator.
XPathDocument^ document = gcnew XPathDocument("contosoBooks.xml");
XPathNavigator^ navigator = document->CreateNavigator();
navigator->MoveToChild("bookstore", "http://www.contoso.com/books");
navigator->MoveToChild("book", "http://www.contoso.com/books");
Console::WriteLine(navigator->InnerXml);
XPathDocument document = new XPathDocument("contosoBooks.xml");
XPathNavigator navigator = document.CreateNavigator();
navigator.MoveToChild("bookstore", "http://www.contoso.com/books");
navigator.MoveToChild("book", "http://www.contoso.com/books");
Console.WriteLine(navigator.InnerXml);
Dim document As XPathDocument = New XPathDocument("contosoBooks.xml")
Dim navigator As XPathNavigator = document.CreateNavigator()
navigator.MoveToChild("bookstore", "http://www.contoso.com/books")
navigator.MoveToChild("book", "http://www.contoso.com/books")
Console.WriteLine(navigator.InnerXml)
The example takes the contosoBooks.xml file as an input.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<bookstore xmlns="http://www.contoso.com/books">
<book genre="autobiography" publicationdate="1981-03-22" ISBN="1-861003-11-0">
<title>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title>
<author>
<first-name>Benjamin</first-name>
<last-name>Franklin</last-name>
</author>
<price>8.99</price>
</book>
<book genre="novel" publicationdate="1967-11-17" ISBN="0-201-63361-2">
<title>The Confidence Man</title>
<author>
<first-name>Herman</first-name>
<last-name>Melville</last-name>
</author>
<price>11.99</price>
</book>
<book genre="philosophy" publicationdate="1991-02-15" ISBN="1-861001-57-6">
<title>The Gorgias</title>
<author>
<name>Plato</name>
</author>
<price>9.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
Remarks
Note
The InnerXml and OuterXml properties are not very efficient. If performance is a priority, it is more efficient to use the node navigation methods of the XPathNavigator to get values of child nodes.
