XMLDocument vs XPathDocument in .net 2.0

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Andy Fish - 24 Jan 2008 11:49 GMT

Hi,

In .net 1.1, I used XPathDocument for read-only access to XML (specifically
transforms) because there were major performance differences between that
and XmlDocument

I read that in .Net 2.0 MS concentrated their efforts on improving
XmlDocument. so is XPathDocument now a historical artefact or should we
still be using it for best performance?

TIA

Andy

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Martin Honnen - 24 Jan 2008 13:22 GMT

> In .net 1.1, I used XPathDocument for read-only access to XML (specifically
> transforms) because there were major performance differences between that
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> XmlDocument. so is XPathDocument now a historical artefact or should we
> still be using it for best performance?

As far as I understand XPathDocument is certainly not a historical
artefact, rather it is still the best input for XSLT and XPath. If you
need to make changes then use XmlDocument. Or of course with .NET 3.5
look into LINQ to XML.

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