XmlDocument SelectNodes(Xpath): Order of result
- by crauscher
This is an example xml from MSDN
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- A fragment of a book store inventory database -->
<bookstore xmlns:bk="urn:samples">
<book genre="novel" publicationdate="1997" bk:ISBN="1-861001-57-8">
<title>Pride And Prejudice</title>
</book>
<book genre="novel" publicationdate="1992" bk:ISBN="1-861002-30-1">
<title>The Handmaid's Tale</title>
</book>
<book genre="novel" publicationdate="1991" bk:ISBN="1-861001-57-6">
<title>Emma</title>
</book>
<book genre="novel" publicationdate="1982" bk:ISBN="1-861001-45-3">
<title>Sense and Sensibility</title>
</book>
</bookstore>
When I select all book nodes using the following code, which order will these nodes have?
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("booksort.xml");
var nodeList =doc.SelectNodes("bookstore/book");
Will the order of the items in the nodelist be the same as the order in the xml? Is this order guaranteed?
