"Oleg Tkachenko" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
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> Fotis Tsitsirigos wrote:
>
> > The result stored in the "test: variable is the following:
> >
> > <result code="2"/><contract_id> "1"</contract_id><tax_number>
> > "111111"</tax_number><name> "Cust1 Name1"</name><balance>
> > "50.0"</balance></result>
> >
> > Is there any way to Read this as an XML document? I need for example
> > to read only one field, without having to process the whole string.
>
> Take a look at LoadXml() method of XmlDocument class. But if you need
> only read some values from the XML, XMLDocument is too uneffective for
> that, use XPathDocument or even plain XmlReader depending on how complex
> your query is.
> --
> Oleg Tkachenko
> XML Insider
> http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
>

Daniel Cazzulino wrote:

> There's a myth against XmlDocument. It's almost as efficient as
> XPathDocument (at least in v1.1) and actually better for big documents
> (500k+).

"Oleg Tkachenko" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
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> Daniel Cazzulino wrote:
>
> > There's a myth against XmlDocument. It's almost as efficient as
> > XPathDocument (at least in v1.1) and actually better for big documents
> > (500k+).
>
> That's really interesting to make some measurements. Anyway, as far as I
> measured (really roughly) XmlDocument is 30% slower than XPathDocument
> in XPath queries (well, obviously).
> --
> Oleg Tkachenko
> XML Insider
> http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
>