XmlNode and XmlElement difference

Duggi

Hi

I am trying to get the difference here.

What is Node and what is Element in XML. ( I Think a dumb question...
but donot the difference)

Thanks in advance
-Srinivas.

Jan 16 '07 #1

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Duggi <Du***************@gmail.comwrote:

I am trying to get the difference here.

What is Node and what is Element in XML. ( I Think a dumb question...
but donot the difference)

Not a dumb question at all. XML is full of nodes - pretty much
everything is a node. An attribute is a node, a document is a node, an
element is a node, a comment is a node, etc - see XmlNodeType for more
info.

So, an element is just a particular type of node.

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Jan 16 '07 #2

Duggi

Thanks Jon.

I think I am little clear now. Spent some time on MSDN able to find
XMLElement is a type of XMLNode..:-)

Thanks
-Srinivas.

Jon wrote:

Duggi <Du***************@gmail.comwrote:
I am trying to get the difference here.

What is Node and what is Element in XML. ( I Think a dumb question...
but donot the difference)

Not a dumb question at all. XML is full of nodes - pretty much
everything is a node. An attribute is a node, a document is a node, an
element is a node, a comment is a node, etc - see XmlNodeType for more
info.

So, an element is just a particular type of node.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

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