XText.NodeType Property
Definition
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Gets the node type for this node.
public:
virtual property System::Xml::XmlNodeType NodeType { System::Xml::XmlNodeType get(); };
public override System.Xml.XmlNodeType NodeType { get; }
member this.NodeType : System.Xml.XmlNodeType
Public Overrides ReadOnly Property NodeType As XmlNodeType
Property Value
The node type. For XText objects, this value is Text.
Examples
The following example creates an XML tree that contains a number of types of nodes. It then iterates through the tree, outputting the node type of each node.
Note that Child2
contains an XText node, implicitly converted from the string content.
// 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", "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);
}
}
' Note that XNode uses XmlNodeType, which is in the System.Xml namespace.
Dim xmlTree As XDocument = _
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!-- a comment -->
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='hello.xsl'?>
<Root Att="attContent">
<Child1>
<![CDATA[CDATA content]]>
</Child1>
<Child2>Text content</Child2>
</Root>
For Each node As XNode In xmlTree.DescendantNodes
Console.WriteLine(node.NodeType.ToString())
If node.NodeType = XmlNodeType.Element Then
For Each att In DirectCast(node, XElement).Attributes
Console.WriteLine(att.NodeType.ToString())
Next
End If
Next
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.