NodeType Property
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XText.NodeType Property

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Gets the node type for this node.

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

'Declaration
Public Overrides ReadOnly Property NodeType As XmlNodeType

Property Value

Type: System.Xml.XmlNodeType
The node type. For XText objects, this value is Text.

Because all classes that derive from XObject contain a NodeType property, you can write code that operates on collections of concrete subclass of XObject. Your code can then test for the node type of each node in the collection.

The following example creates an XML tree that contains a number of types of nodes. It then iterates through the tree, outputting the node type of each node.

Note that Child2 contains an XText node, implicitly converted from the string content.


Dim output As New StringBuilder
' Note that XNode uses XmlNodeType, which is in the System.Xml namespace.
Dim xmlTree As XDocument = _
    <?xml version='1.0'?>
    <!-- a comment -->
    <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='hello.xsl'?>
    <Root Att="attContent">
        <Child1>
            <![CDATA[CDATA content]]>
        </Child1>
        <Child2>Text content</Child2>
    </Root>

For Each node As XNode In xmlTree.DescendantNodes
    output.Append(node.NodeType.ToString())
    output.Append(Environment.NewLine)
    If node.NodeType = XmlNodeType.Element Then
        For Each att In DirectCast(node, XElement).Attributes
            output.Append(att.NodeType.ToString())
            output.Append(Environment.NewLine)
        Next
    End If
Next


OutputTextBlock.Text = output.ToString()


Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

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