override CreateElement - getting the name of the parentNode ????

[JoostV]

However, I am wondering if I can make the creation of my object depend
on the name of the parent node DURING parsing (or even the name of the
grandparent node)?? In other words, how can I do something like this:

class MyParser : XmlDocument
{
public override XmlElement CreateElement(string prefix, string
lname, ...)
{
//--> where can I get the ParentNode
// in the next line???????????????
if ( ParentNode.Name =="company" )
return new Employee(prefix, lname, nsuri, this)
else if (lname=="person")
return new Person(prefix, lname, nsuri, this);
else
return base.CreateElement(prefix, lname, nsuri);
}
}

{
...
MyParser parser = new MyParser()
parser.load( "C:\\test.xml" );
}

Does anybody have any ideas about how this can be solved??
Thanks.

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

JoostV wrote:

However, I am wondering if I can make the creation of my object depend
on the name of the parent node DURING parsing (or even the name of the
grandparent node)?? In other words, how can I do something like this:

class MyParser : XmlDocument
{
public override XmlElement CreateElement(string prefix, string
lname, ...)
{
//--> where can I get the ParentNode
// in the next line???????????????

There is no "the ParentNode" of XmlDocument, instead each node a
ParentNode. CreateElement() method creates "dangling" node - it belongs
to the document, but doesn't apper in document tree. One has to append
or insert it to some other node.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, XmlInsider]
http://blog.tkachenko.com