How can I pass an XmlDocument as a value type?

[William]

I would like to pass an XmlDocument to a method as a non-referenced object.
Can this be done?

[Tom Spink]

William wrote:

I would like to pass an XmlDocument to a method as a non-referenced
object. Can this be done?

Hi William,

You'll need to clone it. I believe the XmlDocument object exposes a Clone
method, which you can use to clone it, and so pass it in like this:

SomeClass.SomeMethod( theXmlDoc.Clone() as XmlDocument );

The reason for the 'as' there is that the Clone() method returns an XmlNode,
and (hopefully) will actually return the cloned instance of the
XmlDocument, since XmlDocument inherits from XmlNode.

Hope this helps,
-- Tom Spink

[Jeffrey Hornby]

I'm not sure what you mean by this. All object variables in C# are
references, so the idea of passing a non-referenced object doesn't make
sense. What are you trying to do?

--
Jeffrey Hornby
Hornby Consulting, Inc.

"William" wrote:

I would like to pass an XmlDocument to a method as a non-referenced object.
Can this be done?

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Would mind to further explain what you want?

If you want to modify it inside a method and this action do not have effect
in the calling method then you need to clone it.
You can save to a string and then create a new document from this string.
Not sure if there is a better way .
--
--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

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I would like to pass an XmlDocument to a method as a non-referenced object.
Can this be done?

[William]

I was wonering if there might be something comparable to boxing/unboxing for
reference types, but this does not seem to be the case. I decided to go
ahead and just clone it.

"Jeffrey Hornby" <Je***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. All object variables in C# are
references, so the idea of passing a non-referenced object doesn't make
sense. What are you trying to do?

--
Jeffrey Hornby
Hornby Consulting, Inc.

"William" wrote:

I would like to pass an XmlDocument to a method as a non-referenced
object.
Can this be done?