XPathNavigator::CanEdit Property
.NET Framework (current version)
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 = gcnew XPathDocument("books.xml");
XPathNavigator^ readOnlyNavigator = readOnlyDocument->CreateNavigator();
XmlDocument^ editableDocument = gcnew 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>
.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
Silverlight
Available since 4.0
Available since 2.0
Silverlight
Available since 4.0
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