Question regarding 70-528 --> XmlReader methods

Hi guys,

I am about to try exam 70-528 and am stumbling about an issue with XmlReader
methods Skip() and Read().

Please see the following example:

xml-file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bookstore specialty="novel">
<book style="autobiography">
<author>
<first-name>Joe</first-name>
<last-name>Bob</last-name>
<award>Trenton Literary</award>
</author>
<price>12</price>
</book>
<book style="textbook">
<author>
<first-name>Mary</first-name>
<last-name>Bob</last-name>
</author>
<price>55</price>
</book>
<book style="novel" id="myfave">
<author>
<first-name>Toni</first-name>
<last-name>Bob</last-name>
</author>
</book>
</bookstore>

Code Behind file:

using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create("book.xml"))
{
reader.MoveToContent();
reader.Read();
reader.Skip();
reader.Skip();
reader.ReadStartElement("book");
reader.ReadStartElement("author");
reader.ReadStartElement("first-name");
xmlLabel.Text = reader.ReadString();
reader.ReadEndElement();
reader.ReadStartElement("last-name");
xmlLabel.Text += " " + reader.ReadString();
}

So, that brings "Mary Bob". I don't understand why the Skip() method, if
called twice, does not move fwd to the last book node and displays "Toni
Bob". I have tried to find sth in MSDN and on the web, but without success.
Maybe it is that I misunderstand the Read() method, but am not sure.
For my understanding, after reader.MoveToContent() the reader is placed at
the bookstore node. Calling Read() reads the current node (bookstore) and
advances the reader to the next node (book). Then we call the Skip() method,
so that we are at book style="textbook". Finally the last reader.Skip()
advances to the third and last book node. If that would be true the result
should be "Toni Bob", so there must be an error somewhere.

Many thanks for your help!
Martin

Martin Eckart

You should use settings of XmlReader, like this:

XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.IgnoreWhitespace = true;
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create("book.xml", settings))
{
....
}

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