How best to use XPath with very large XML files in .NET?

Question

I need to do some processing on fairly large XML files ( large here being potentially upwards of a gigabyte ) in C# including performing some complex xpath queries. The prob

Answer 1

Have you been trying XPathDocument? This class is optimized for handling XPath queries efficiently.

If you cannot handle your input documents efficiently using XPathDocument you might consider preprocessing and/or splitting up your input documents using an XmlReader.