XPathDocument

XPathDocument

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System.Xml.XPath (system.xml.dll)

class

This class is a concrete implementation of IXPathNavigable for creating an XPathNavigator that knows how to scan through an XML document. There are overloaded forms of the constructor designed to pull an XML document from various sourcesa System.IO.Stream , a string, a System.IO.TextReader (which presumably is pulling from some other valid data source), or a System.Xml.XmlReader . Note that if the XmlReader is currently positioned on top of a particular node within a document, the constructed XPathDocument instance is only valid for that element and its children. This allows partial XPath scans of a given document.

This class serves no other purpose than as a factory for producing XPathNavigator instances.

 public class  XPathDocument  : IXPathNavigable {  // Public Constructors  public  XPathDocument  (System.IO.Stream   stream   );    public  XPathDocument  (string   uri   );    public  XPathDocument  (string   uri   , System.Xml.XmlSpace   space   );    public  XPathDocument  (System.IO.TextReader   reader   );    public  XPathDocument  (System.Xml.XmlReader   reader   );    public  XPathDocument  (System.Xml.XmlReader   reader   , System.Xml.XmlSpace   space   );  // Public Instance Methods  public XPathNavigator  CreateNavigator  ( );  // implements IXPathNavigable  }