What is the difference between XmlNode and XmlElement?

[Pluto]

What is the difference between XmlNode and XmlElement?

I'm trying to implement the code at
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/11616/0/page/3 in C# and I'm getting an
error at this line:
this.appSettingsElement =
this.xml.SelectSingleNode("//configuration/appSettings");

Error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Xml.XmlNode' to
'System.Xml.XmlElement'

Thanks.

[Oleg Tkachenko]

Pluto wrote:

What is the difference between XmlNode and XmlElement? The same as between fruit and apple. XmlElement is particular type of
XmlNode.
this.appSettingsElement =
this.xml.SelectSingleNode("//configuration/appSettings");

Error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Xml.XmlNode' to
'System.Xml.XmlElement'

So convert it explicitly:
this.appSettingsElement =
(XmlElement)this.xml.SelectSingleNode("//configuration/appSettings");

--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

[Peter Rilling]

But as for the difference between the two, a node is more general then an
element. Anything in an XML document is a node (e.g. attributes, comments,
doctype, etc), but only tags are elements.

This error is not specific to XML conversions but .NET cannot implicitly
down-cast a variable. That is why you need to specify the cast yourself
since SelectSingleNode returns an XmlNode object.

"Oleg Tkachenko" <oleg@NO_SPAM_PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
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Pluto wrote:

What is the difference between XmlNode and XmlElement?

The same as between fruit and apple. XmlElement is particular type of
XmlNode.

this.appSettingsElement =
this.xml.SelectSingleNode("//configuration/appSettings");

Error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Xml.XmlNode' to
'System.Xml.XmlElement'

So convert it explicitly:
this.appSettingsElement =
(XmlElement)this.xml.SelectSingleNode("//configuration/appSettings");

--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel