Applied XML Programming for Microsoft® .NET

A Read/Write XML Streaming Parser

XML readers and writers work in separate compartments and in an extremely specialized way. Readers just read, and writers just write. There is no way to force things to go differently, and in fact, the underlying streams are read-only or write-only as required. Suppose that your application manages lengthy XML documents that contain rather volatile data. Readers provide a powerful and effective way to read that contents. Writers, on the other hand, offer a fantastic tool to create that document from scratch. But if you want to read and write the document at the same time, you must necessarily resort to a full-fledged XML Document Object Model (XML DOM). What can you do to read and write an XML document without ...