"Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I got a question on executing the xpath. Can someone let me know which way
>is
> faster for the following two scenarios (one with XmlDocument and the other
> using XmlDocument.CreateNavigator())?
>
> XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
> doc.Load(input);
>
> 1. XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes(xpathexp);
> 2. XmlNodeList nodes = doc.CreateNavigator().Select(xpathexp);

"Priya Lakshminarayanan" wrote:

> The doc.SelectNodes is a convenience method that in turn calls
> this.CreateNavigator().Select(xpath)
> Note that XPathNavigator.Select returns an XPathNodeIterator and not an
> XmlNodeList and hence the doc.SelectNodes internally creates an
> XmlNodeList() that is returned.
>
> Thanks,
> Priya
>
> "Jon" <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1AA190A7-B701-41AC-B530-1D80A84CF8C5@microsoft.com...
> >I got a question on executing the xpath. Can someone let me know which way
> >is
> > faster for the following two scenarios (one with XmlDocument and the other
> > using XmlDocument.CreateNavigator())?
> >
> > XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
> > doc.Load(input);
> >
> > 1. XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes(xpathexp);
> > 2. XmlNodeList nodes = doc.CreateNavigator().Select(xpathexp);
>
>