what is fastest way to read and manipulate xml?

Question

which is fater xdocument or xmldocument

Ashutosh Gupta · Answer

as i mentioned that reading any element, it could be last element in hierarchy you can use e.g. if your last element name is ' document.XPathSelectElements("//xyz") // this gives to all element of type xyz whereever it is defined in xml. if want to read all attribute of type name under xyz document.XPathSelectElements("//xyz[@name]") // this gives to all attribute of xyz element whereever it is defined.in xml

Deepika · Answer

Hi Ashutosh/durano, Thanks for your reply, i have an xml which i can not publish here but it has more than 10 level of hierarchy and i need to read all the leaf level element..

Ashutosh Gupta · Answer

it is all depends on your program and type of xml data your have. but in gerneral, Xdocument using LinQ is faster and simple as it has many API's to read data faster and you can get the element and attribute by writing less code. have a look on my blog which demonstrate many of Xdocument - > Xpath query to read the specific element etc, you may find some of answers in this blog. https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/how-to-use-xpath-syntax-to-select-xml-nodes-via-path-or-steps

Vincent Maverick Durano · Answer

Here's a good discussion about them here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1542073/xdocument-or-xmldocument

Anand · Answer

XmlDocument is great for developers who are familiar with the XML DOM object model. It's been around for a while, and more or less corresponds to a W3C standard. It supports manual navigation as well as XPath node selection.