Deciding on when to use XmlDocument vs XmlReader

Question

I\'m optimizing a custom object -> XML serialization utility, and it\'s all done and working and that\'s not the issue.

It worked by loading a file into an Xml

Answer 1

There is a size threshold at which XmlDocument becomes slower, and eventually unusable. But the actual value of the threshold will depend on your application and XML content, so there are no hard and fast rules.

If your XML file can contain large lists (say tens of thousands of elements), you should definitely be using XmlReader.