XObject.NodeType Property

public:
 abstract property System::Xml::XmlNodeType NodeType { System::Xml::XmlNodeType get(); };

public abstract System.Xml.XmlNodeType NodeType { get; }

member this.NodeType : System.Xml.XmlNodeType

Public MustOverride ReadOnly Property NodeType As XmlNodeType

The node type for this XObject.

The following example uses this method to retrieve the node type for a variety of nodes.

// Note that XNode uses XmlNodeType, which is in the System.Xml namespace.
XDocument xmlTree = new XDocument(
    new XComment("a comment"),
    new XProcessingInstruction("xml-stylesheet", "type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"hello.xsl\""),
    new XElement("Root",
        new XAttribute("Att", "attContent"),
        new XElement("Child1",
            new XCData("CDATA content")
        ),
        new XElement("Child2",
            new XText("Text content")
        )
    )
);

foreach (XNode node in xmlTree.DescendantNodes())
{
    Console.WriteLine(node.NodeType);
    if (node.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
    {
        foreach (XAttribute att in ((XElement)node).Attributes())
            Console.WriteLine(att.NodeType);
    }
}

' Note that XNode uses XmlNodeType, which is in the System.Xml  namespace.
Dim xmlTree As XDocument = _
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!--a comment-->
    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="hello.xsl"?>
    <Root Att="attContent">
        <Child1><![CDATA[CDATA content]]></Child1>
        <Child2>Text content</Child2>
     </Root>

For Each node As XNode In xmlTree.DescendantNodes
    Console.WriteLine(node.NodeType.ToString())
    If node.NodeType = XmlNodeType.Element Then
        For Each att In DirectCast(node, XElement).Attributes
            Console.WriteLine(att.NodeType.ToString())
        Next
    End If
Next

This example produces the following output:

Comment
ProcessingInstruction
Element
Attribute
Element
CDATA
Element
Text

Because all classes that derive from XObject contain a NodeType property, you can write code that operates on collections of concrete subclass of XObject. Your code can then test for the node type of each node in the collection.

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