Load an XML document, delivered using an XmlReader.
An XdmNode, the document node at the root of the tree of the resulting
in-memory document
The XmlReader is responsible for parsing the document; this method builds a tree
representation of the document (in an internal Saxon format) and returns its document node.
The XmlReader is not required to perform validation but it must expand any entity references.
Saxon uses the properties of the XmlReader as supplied.
Use of a plain XmlTextReader is discouraged, because it does not expand entity
references. This should only be used if you know in advance that the document will contain
no entity references (or perhaps if your query or stylesheet is not interested in the content
of text and attribute nodes). Instead, with .NET 1.1 use an XmlValidatingReader (with ValidationType
set to None). The constructor for XmlValidatingReader is obsolete in .NET 2.0,
but the same effect can be achieved by using the Create method of XmlReader with
appropriate XmlReaderSettings
Conformance with the W3C specifications requires that the Normalization property
of an XmlTextReader should be set to true. However, Saxon does not insist
on this.
If the XmlReader performs schema validation, Saxon will ignore any resulting type
information. Type information can only be obtained by using Saxon's own schema validator, which
will be run if the SchemaValidationMode property is set to Strict or Lax
Note that the Microsoft System.Xml parser does not report whether attributes are
defined in the DTD as being of type ID and IDREF. This is true whether or not
DTD-based validation is enabled. This means that such attributes are not accessible to the
id() and idref() functions.
DocumentBuilder Class | Saxon.Api Namespace | DocumentBuilder.Build Overload List