Best method to parse xml content in VS 2005?

[polaris431]

I am new to VS 2005 although I have years of experience with the
previous versions of VS. Without having to spend a lot of time diving
into the docs, can someone tell me the easiest way to parse xml
content? In the past I used the DOM object model and XPath. Perhaps
things have improved in VS 2005 and something else has replaced the
need for DOM. Basically, I just want to get at a node and read out the
contents although there can be multiple nodes of the same parent.

[Chris Fulstow]

Try System.Xml.XmlDocument:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ldocument.aspx

[e-mail] wrote:

I am new to VS 2005 although I have years of experience with the
previous versions of VS. Without having to spend a lot of time diving
into the docs, can someone tell me the easiest way to parse xml
content? In the past I used the DOM object model and XPath. Perhaps
things have improved in VS 2005 and something else has replaced the
need for DOM. Basically, I just want to get at a node and read out the
contents although there can be multiple nodes of the same parent.

[Marc Gravell]

There is an XPathDocument if you need read-only access; it is meant to be a
bit more optimised (i.e. doesn't need as many class instances as the DOM).

Alternatively, perhaps an XmlReader directly? Much harder to work with, but
very efficient.

Marc