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XNodeEqualityComparer::Equals Method (XNode^, XNode^)

 

Compares the values of two nodes.

Namespace:   System.Xml.Linq
Assembly:  System.Xml.Linq (in System.Xml.Linq.dll)

public:
virtual bool Equals(
	XNode^ x,
	XNode^ y
) sealed

Parameters

x
Type: System.Xml.Linq::XNode^

The first XNode to compare.

y
Type: System.Xml.Linq::XNode^

The second XNode to compare.

Return Value

Type: System::Boolean

A Boolean indicating if the nodes are equal.

The following criteria determine whether two nodes are equal:

  • A null node is equal to another null node but unequal to a non-null node.

  • Two XNode objects of different types are never equal.

  • Two XText nodes are equal if they contain the same text.

  • Two XElement nodes are equal if they have the same tag name, the same set of attributes with the same values, and (ignoring comments and processing instructions), contain two equal-length sequences of pairwise equal content nodes.

  • Two XDocument objects are equal if their root nodes are equal.

  • Two XComment nodes are equal if they contain the same comment text.

  • Two XProcessingInstruction nodes are equal if they have the same target and data.

  • Two XDocumentType nodes are equal if the have the same name, public ID, system ID, and internal subset.

The following example uses this class to compare two nodes.


                XElement xmlTree1 = new XElement("Root",
    new XAttribute("Att1", 1),
    new XAttribute("Att2", 2),
    new XElement("Child1", 1),
    new XElement("Child2", "some content")
);
XElement xmlTree2 = new XElement("Root",
    new XAttribute("Att1", 1),
    new XAttribute("Att2", 2),
    new XElement("Child1", 1),
    new XElement("Child2", "some content")
);
XNodeEqualityComparer equalityComparer = new XNodeEqualityComparer();
Console.WriteLine(equalityComparer.Equals(xmlTree1, xmlTree2));
xmlTree2.Add(new XElement("NewChild", "new content"));
Console.WriteLine(equalityComparer.Equals(xmlTree1, xmlTree2));

This example produces the following output:


                True
False

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 3.5
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
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