What ever happened to XPathReader

Question

XPathReader is/ was an implementation of a forward reading XML parser (built on XMLReader) which allowed you to register XPath queries for it to find (or at least a subset o

Answer 1

I suspect that LINQ-to-XML happened. However, the Mvp.Xml project on CodePlex has many features that relate to this. You might want to take a look at the XPointer.NET library they have developed and the XPointerReader.

Also, you might want to take a look at this FastXPathReader on CodeProject (I don't know how effective it is).

As for XPathReader, all I could find were the links you provided and links associated with those. It looks like it disappeared. Like I said, I think LINQ-to-XML was the outcome, but I'm just guessing.

Answer 2

Found myself asking the very same question today as I was meaning to build a BizTalk pipeline component to parse incoming message for specific elements.

After some googling, I found out that the XPathReader assembly is shipped with BizTalk and is residing in the GAC.

Just reference the GAC assembly Microsoft.BizTalk.XPathReader.dll and you're up and running!

Answer 3

It seems that ms released this over here and the install includes source code.

Answer 4

XNode.ReadFrom combines the power (and supported status) of Linq to XML with the ability to process a stream rather than loading the entire file into memory

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.linq.xnode.readfrom.aspx