XElement.ReplaceAll Method (Object)
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Replaces the child nodes and the attributes of this element with the specified content.
Assembly: System.Xml.Linq (in System.Xml.Linq.dll)
Parameters
- content
- Type: System.Object
The content that will replace the child nodes and attributes of this element.
This method first removes existing content and attributes. It then adds the specified content.
This method uses snapshot semantics—that is, it creates a separate copy of the new content before replacing the contents of the current element with the new content. This means that you can query the contents of the current element and use the results of the query as the specified new content.
For more information about the valid content that can be passed to this function, see Valid Content of XElement and XDocument Objects in the .NET Framework documentation.
The following example uses this method.
Dim output As New StringBuilder Dim root As XElement = _ <Root> <Child>child content</Child> </Root> ' ReplaceAll with an XElement object. root.ReplaceAll(<NewChild>n</NewChild>) output.Append(root) output.Append(Environment.NewLine) ' ReplaceAll with an XAttribute object. root.ReplaceAll(New XAttribute("NewAttribute", "n")) output.Append(root) output.Append(Environment.NewLine) ' ReplaceAll with a string. root.ReplaceAll("Some text") output.Append(root) output.Append(Environment.NewLine) ' ReplaceAll with a double. Dim dbl As Double = 12.345 root.ReplaceAll(dbl) output.Append(root) output.Append(Environment.NewLine) ' ReplaceAll with a DateTime object. Dim dt As DateTime = New DateTime(2006, 10, 6, 12, 30, 0) root.ReplaceAll(dt) output.Append(root) output.Append(Environment.NewLine) ' ReplaceAll with a string array. ' Any collection other than a collection of XElement or XAttribute objects ' are converted to strings. The strings are concatenated and added. Dim stringArray As String() = { _ "abc", _ "def", _ "ghi" _ } root.ReplaceAll(stringArray) output.Append(root) output.Append(Environment.NewLine) ' ReplaceAll with an array of XElement objects. Dim ellArray As XElement() = { _ New XElement("NewChild1", 1), _ New XElement("NewChild2", 2), _ New XElement("NewChild3", 3) _ } root.ReplaceAll(ellArray) output.Append(root) output.Append(Environment.NewLine) ' ReplaceAll with an array of XAttribute objects. Dim attArray As XAttribute() = { _ New XAttribute("NewAtt1", 1), _ New XAttribute("NewAtt2", 2), _ New XAttribute("NewAtt3", 3) _ } root.ReplaceAll(attArray) output.Append(root) output.Append(Environment.NewLine) OutputTextBlock.Text = output.ToString()