Linq a viable solution for XML?

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DBC User - 03 Mar 2008 19:37 GMT

So far all the examples I have seen been working with simple XML
files. Just curious, is Linqq a viable solution for handling a large
XML file, when I say large, it means it has almost 2K+ nodes in it and
it keep growing as well?
Thanks.

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 03 Mar 2008 22:21 GMT

> So far all the examples I have seen been working with simple XML
> files. Just curious, is Linqq a viable solution for handling a large
> XML file, when I say large, it means it has almost 2K+ nodes in it and
> it keep growing as well?

I believe LINQ to XML does support some streaming scenarios, but I
don't know the details of it. I suggest you find specific LINQ to XML
tutorials, pages and books.

2K nodes doesn't sound *very* large, to be honest - I think of "large"
as "too big to reasonably hold in memory".

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DBC User - 04 Mar 2008 15:38 GMT

> > So far all the examples I have seen been working with simple XML
> > files. Just curious, is Linqq a viable solution for handling a large
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> Jon Skeet - <sk...@pobox.com>http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog:http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
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Thanks for the info.

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Arne Vajhøj - 05 Mar 2008 02:37 GMT

It should be fine.

The reason you usually see small XML in examples is purely practical.

10 lines of english + 10000 lines of XML + 10 lines
of C# will annoy many readers.

Arne

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