Question

I have an datatable serialized to Xml. It has 1000’s of records. Using the DataTable’s ReadXml method works, but it is very slow. I am only interested in the first 100 records. Is there a way of reading the file, extracting the first 100 records, and loading that using the ReadXml method?

Answer 1

try something like this!

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load( "c:\\testfile2.xml" );
foreach (XmlNode nd in doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes( "xml/entry" ))
{
...
} 

im not up on dot net so this could be different..

also please look at this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998559.aspx