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XPathDocument faster than XMLDocument ?

working with a local xml file. perform an xpath query and iterate through
the resultset to build a virtual DataTable -- each DataRow composed of
multiple attributes of each element in the xpath resultset ...

is working with an XPathDocument faster than working with an XMLDocument ?
if so , how much faster ?
Nov 12 '05 #1
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John A Grandy wrote:
is working with an XPathDocument faster than working with an XMLDocument ?
if so , how much faster ?


Sure. XPathDocument is in average 30-40% faster and takes less memory.
Always use it unless you need to edit XML in memory (I'm talking about
..NET 1.X, because in .NET 2.0 XPathDocument is editable too).

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