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XPathNodeType Enumeration
Visual Studio 2010
Defines the XPath node types that can be returned from the XPathNavigator class.
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)
| Member name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Root | The root node of the XML document or node tree. | |
| Element | An element, such as <element>. | |
| Attribute | An attribute, such as id='123'. | |
| Namespace | A namespace, such as xmlns="namespace". | |
| Text | The text content of a node. Equivalent to the Document Object Model (DOM) Text and CDATA node types. Contains at least one character. | |
| SignificantWhitespace | A node with white space characters and xml:space set to preserve. | |
| Whitespace | A node with only white space characters and no significant white space. White space characters are #x20, #x9, #xD, or #xA. | |
| ProcessingInstruction | A processing instruction, such as <?pi test?>. This does not include XML declarations, which are not visible to the XPathNavigator class. | |
| Comment | A comment, such as <!-- my comment --> | |
| All | Any of the XPathNodeType node types. |
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.
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