I have came across both these keywords in the VS IntelliSense. I tried to googling the difference between them and did not get a clear answer. Which one of these have the best performance with small to medium XML files. Thanks
Elements
finds only those elements that are direct descendents, ie immediate children.
Descendants
finds children at any level, ie children, grand-children, etc...
Here is an example demonstrating the difference:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<foo>
<bar>Test 1</bar>
<baz>
<bar>Test 2</bar>
</baz>
<bar>Test 3</bar>
</foo>
Code:
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("input.xml");
XElement root = doc.Root;
foreach (XElement e in root.Elements("bar"))
{
Console.WriteLine("Elements : " + e.Value);
}
foreach (XElement e in root.Descendants("bar"))
{
Console.WriteLine("Descendants : " + e.Value);
}
Result:
Elements : Test 1 Elements : Test 3 Descendants : Test 1 Descendants : Test 2 Descendants : Test 3
If you know that the elements you want are immediate children then you will get better performance if you use Elements
instead of Descendants
.
Descendants
将搜索当前元素的整个子树以获取指定的名称(如果未提供名称,则将返回树的扁平版本),而Elements
仅搜索当前元素的直接子元素。
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