Weird Issue XML AppendChild

[anonymous]

Can you not append a XmlWhiteSpace node to XmlDocument?

See example:

using System;
using System.Xml;

class TestXml
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string xmlDoc = @"<root><child>a</child></root>";

string newXml = @"
<child>b</child>
<child>c</child>
";

XmlDocument d = new XmlDocument();
d.LoadXml(xmlDoc);

XmlElement tmpNode = d.CreateElement("newNodes");
tmpNode.InnerXml = newXml;

//there are 5 nodes, 2 Elements
Console.WriteLine("Number of nodes: " + tmpNode.ChildNodes.Count);
int i = 0;
foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode)
{
//HMM: should run 5 times right since tmpNode has 5 children but only
runs once!?
//HOWEVER, if you simply add NON-whitespace nodes, it'll work correctly
Console.WriteLine("NODE: " + i++ + ", " + n);
//now append the child node
d.AppendChild(n);
}

}
}

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

anonymous wrote:

foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode)

Should it be foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode.ChildNodes) ?

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http://blog.tkachenko.com

[anonymous]

Oleg-
No difference if you change it.

And..If you change

-->foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode)

to:

-->foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode)
{
if(n.NodeType != XmlNodeType.Element) continue;

Still NO GO.

However, this works:

-->foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode.SelectNodes("//child") )
Truly baffled... or stupid. Probably the latter.

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anonymous wrote:

foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode)

Should it be foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode.ChildNodes) ?

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

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

anonymous wrote:

Oleg-
No difference if you change it.

And..If you change

-->foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode)

to:

-->foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode)

Hmm, both your strings are equal. I meant that's weird to iterate over a
single node. Most likely you want to iterate over tmpNode's childrens?

foreach(XmlNode n in tmpNode.ChildNodes)

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