How Do I invert an XML trees nodes in C#

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I would like to know how to get a group of selected xml node and invert the nodes (not all nodes) just say a group of branches, reorder them from say branch node 10 to 1 , but leave their inner nodes alone ? Any ideas on where to begin , is there a short simple built in function for this ?

Posted 8-Apr-15 11:58am

stixoffire

Updated 8-Apr-15 12:10pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Apr-15 18:09pm

Many ways. I wonder why, what would you like to achieve?
What have you tried so far?
—SA

stixoffire 9-Apr-15 12:06pm

I have not tried anything as yet, I am looking at XML , and thinking to get the document, get the nodes of interest (via a tree or list view of selected nodes, and trying to make sure I am only getting those nodes in the tree that are of interest [selected] , get xml nodes as a collection that corresponds to the selection, allow the inversion of node sequence then rewrite the document (or should I simply get the xml and use a replace function). The reason for this is there is a program that exports in XML and based on the node position - sets the elements in the node sequence position .. so doing a simple inversion can take some time when doing this repetitively. Am I thinking about this the correct way or is there a better way to do it ? I do not need a bunch of code, I can write that myself - I just need some direction on the best way to go about it.

Maciej Los 9-Apr-15 13:22pm

Based on what condition you want to reorder nodes in xml?

stixoffire 9-Apr-15 16:03pm

The user selects the group of nodes. My code will invert the selection.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-09T06:25:00

.NET FCL provide more than enough techniques for working with XML. This is my short review of them:

Use System.Xml.XmlDocument class. It implements DOM interface; this way is the easiest and good enough if the size if the document is not too big.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx.
Use the classes System.Xml.XmlTextWriter and System.Xml.XmlTextReader; this is the fastest way of reading, especially is you need to skip some data.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlwriter.aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlreader.aspx.
Use the class System.Xml.Linq.XDocument; this is the most adequate way similar to that of XmlDocument, supporting LINQ to XML Programming.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387063.aspx.

Use whatever suite you most.

—SA