XmlTextReader VS XmlDocument

[Samishii23]

I've been putting together a reader with XmlTextReader, while doing some research, I came across a couple things showing XmlDocument examples.

I was wondering what people think? Is one better then the other or more effiecient?

[Samishii23]

I was really wondering because I typed out a a method to load a XML file...
Assuming All the proper things are in place for this to work. Since this does compile...

try {
  XMLClassData = new XmlTextReader(uri);
  while (XMLClassData.Read()) {
    IsTagDisc = false;
    switch (XMLClassData.NodeType) {
      case XmlNodeType.Element:
        if (XMLClassData.Name == "Talent") {
          while (XMLClassData.MoveToNextAttribute()) {
            switch (XMLClassData.Name) {
              case "pts":
                if (XMLClassData.Value == "0") {
                  TalentDataAtr[TDi] = "none";
                  TalentDataDisc[TDi] = "none";
                  break; }
                else {
                  TalentDataAtr[TDi] += "pts:" + XMLClassData.Value; }
                break;
              case "title":
                TalentDataAtr[TDi] += ",title:" + XMLClassData.Value; break;
              case "icon":
                TalentDataAtr[TDi] += ",icon:" + XMLClassData.Value; break;
              case "req":
                TalentDataAtr[TDi] += ",req:" + XMLClassData.Value; break;
              }
            }
          }
        if (XMLClassData.Name == "disc") {
          IsTagDisc = true;
          if (XMLClassData.AttributeCount < 0) {
            while (XMLClassData.MoveToNextAttribute()) {
              switch (XMLClassData.Name) {
                case "replace": TalentDataDisc[TDi] += XMLClassData.Value + "|||"; break;
                }
              }
            }
          }
          break;
        case XmlNodeType.Text:
          if (IsTagDisc) {
            TalentDataDisc[TDi] += XMLClassData.Value; }
          break;
        }
      TDi++;
    }
  }
  catch (Exception EX) {
    MessageBox.Show("Problem: " + EX.Message); }

But seriously... Theres got to be a better way to do this... =\

[Curtis Rutland]

There's a much better way in my opinion:
LINQ to XML. Look it up, it's amazing.

But the difference between an XmlTextReader and an XmlDocument is that the TextReader is a StreamReader that is made specially for XML. It is designed to open a file and read it. An XmlDocument is a Data Structure designed to hold XML data in memory.

[Samishii23]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it.