Comments on: Using LINQ to XML instead of XmlReader http://brian.dobberteen.com/code/using-linq-to-xml-instead-of-xmlreader/ Fun With Web Development! Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:43:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: GazNewt http://brian.dobberteen.com/code/using-linq-to-xml-instead-of-xmlreader/comment-page-1/#comment-742 GazNewt Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:29:16 +0000 http://brian.dobberteen.com/?p=87#comment-742 I had a similar decision to make about handling XML in a more "modern" way. In the end I went for this kind of thing foreach( var oElement in oParentElement.Elements()) { switch( oElement.Name.LocalName.ToLower()) { case "id" : oObject.Id = oElement.Value; break; case "items" : LoadItems( oObject, oElement); break; } } Quite a lot of code in the end but it works as a forward reader quite nicely I gave a little bit of though about using LINQ to XML but it seemed overkill, I assumed it would be a lot slower than forward reading I had a similar decision to make about handling XML in a more “modern” way. In the end I went for this kind of thing

foreach( var oElement in oParentElement.Elements())
{
switch( oElement.Name.LocalName.ToLower())
{
case “id” : oObject.Id = oElement.Value; break;
case “items” : LoadItems( oObject, oElement); break;
}
}

Quite a lot of code in the end but it works as a forward reader quite nicely

I gave a little bit of though about using LINQ to XML but it seemed overkill, I assumed it would be a lot slower than forward reading

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