XPathNavigator.CanEdit Property
Gets a value indicating whether the XPathNavigator can edit the underlying XML data.
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Booleantrue if the XPathNavigator can edit the underlying XML data; otherwise false.
The CanEdit property has different values based on the three different implementations of the IXPathNavigable interface in the .NET Framework. The CanEdit values for XPathNavigator objects created by each implementation are listed in the following table.
|
IXPathNavigable Implementation |
CanEdit Value |
|---|---|
|
false |
|
|
true |
The following example uses the CanEdit property to display the CanEdit values of the XPathDocument and XmlDocument classes.
XPathDocument readOnlyDocument = new XPathDocument("books.xml"); XPathNavigator readOnlyNavigator = readOnlyDocument.CreateNavigator(); XmlDocument editableDocument = new XmlDocument(); editableDocument.Load("books.xml"); XPathNavigator editableNavigator = editableDocument.CreateNavigator(); Console.WriteLine("XPathNavigator.CanEdit from XPathDocument: {0}", readOnlyNavigator.CanEdit); Console.WriteLine("XPathNavigator.CanEdit from XmlDocument: {0}", editableNavigator.CanEdit);
The example takes the books.xml file as an input.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<bookstore>
<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>
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
