Accessing Other XmlNodes

Accessing Other XmlNodes

Thus far we have examined elements, attributes, and document nodes, but the .NET Compact Framework's XML DOM architecture also provides XmlNode implementations for each XML node type defined in the System.Xml.XmlNodeType enumeration. The two most important pieces of information, name and value, have different meanings in the context of different nodes. Table 11.1 lists each System.Xml.XmlNodeType and the values of their corresponding Name and Value properties.

Table 11.1. XmlNodeTypes and Their Names and Values

NODETYPE	NAME	VALUE
Attribute	Attribute Name	Attribute Value
CDATA	N/A	CDATA 's content
Comment	#comment	Text between <!-- and -->
Document	#document	N/A
DocumentFragment	#document-fragment	N/A
DocumentType	N/A	N/A
Element	Fully qualified element name	N/A
EndElement	Fully qualified element name	N/A
EndEntity	N/A	N/A
Entity	N/A	N/A
EntityReference	N/A	N/A
None	N/A	N/A
Notation	N/A	N/A
ProcessingInstruction	#processing-instruction	Process instruction text minus the target
SignificantWhitespace	N/A	The white space within markup
XmlDeclaration	Xml	The version number and encoding string
Whitespace	#whitespace	The white space in element content
Text	#text	The text content of an element or attribute