XElement.Load (String, LoadOptions) loads an XElement from a file : XML Load « XML LINQ « VB.Net

1. VB.Net
2. XML LINQ
3. XML Load

XElement.Load (String, LoadOptions) loads an XElement from a file

  

Imports System
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.XPath

Public Class MainClass

    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim xmlTree1 As XElement = XElement.Parse("<Root> <Child>  </Child> </Root>", LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace)
        xmlTree1.Save("Tree.xml")
        Console.WriteLine(xmlTree1)
        
        Dim whiteSpaceNodes As Integer
        Dim xmlTree2 As XElement = XElement.Load("Tree.xml", LoadOptions.None)
        whiteSpaceNodes = xmlTree2 _
                          .DescendantNodesAndSelf() _
                          .OfType(Of XText)() _
                          .Where(Function(ByVal tNode As XNode) tNode.ToString().Trim().Length = 0) _
                          .Count()
        Console.WriteLine("Count of white space nodes (not preserving whitespace): {0}", whiteSpaceNodes)
        
        Dim xmlTree3 As XElement = XElement.Load("Tree.xml", LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace)
        whiteSpaceNodes = xmlTree3 _
                          .DescendantNodesAndSelf() _
                          .OfType(Of XText)() _
                          .Where(Function(ByVal tNode As XNode) tNode.ToString().Trim().Length = 0) _
                          .Count()
        Console.WriteLine("Count of white space nodes (preserving whitespace): {0}", whiteSpaceNodes)

    End Sub
End Class

   
    
  

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