XmlNode.Normalize Method
Definition
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Puts all XmlText nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this XmlNode into a "normal" form where only markup (that is, tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates XmlText nodes, that is, there are no adjacent XmlText nodes.
public:
virtual void Normalize();
public virtual void Normalize ();
abstract member Normalize : unit -> unit
override this.Normalize : unit -> unit
Public Overridable Sub Normalize ()
Remarks
This method can be used to ensure that the DOM view of a document is the same as if it were saved and re-loaded, and is useful when operations (such as XPointer lookups) that depend on a particular document tree structure are to be used.