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   8 <h2>Namespace: System.Xml.XPath</h2>
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  11 <p> The System.Xml.XPath namespace contains the XPath parser and evaluation engine. It supports the W3C XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 Recommendation (www.w3.org/TR/xpath).</p>
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  14 <h3>Members of System.Xml.XPath Namespace</h3><b>Classes</b><dl>
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  18 <th bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Class</th>
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  24 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XPathDocument.html">class XPathDocument</a></td>
  25 <td width="60%"> Provides a fast and performant read-only cache for XML document processing using XSLT.
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  29 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XPathException.html">class XPathException</a></td>
  30 <td width="60%"> The exception that is thrown when an error occurs when processing an XPath expression.
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  34 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XPathExpression.html">class XPathExpression</a></td>
  35 <td width="60%"> Encapsulates a compiled XPath expression. This class is returned as a result of a call to  <a href="#Compile(System.String)">XPathNavigator.Compile</a> and is used by the  <a href="#Select(System.Xml.XPath.XPathExpression)">XPathNavigator.Select</a>,  <a href="#Evaluate(System.Xml.XPath.XPathExpression)">XPathNavigator.Evaluate</a> and  <a href="#Matches(System.Xml.XPath.XPathExpression)">XPathNavigator.Matches</a> methods.
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  39 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XPathNavigator.html">class XPathNavigator</a></td>
  40 <td width="60%"> Reads data from any data store using a cursor model.
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  44 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XPathNodeIterator.html">class XPathNodeIterator</a></td>
  45 <td width="60%"> Provides an iterator over a set of selected nodes.
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  50 </dl><br><b>Interfaces</b><dl>
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  54 <th bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Interface</th>
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  56                                                         Description
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  60 <td width="30%"><a href="types/IXPathNavigable.html">interface IXPathNavigable</a></td>
  61 <td width="60%"> Provides an accessor to the  <a href="../System.Xml.XPath/types/XPathNavigator.html">XPathNavigator</a>.
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  66 </dl><br><b>Enumerations</b><dl>
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  70 <th bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Enumeration</th>
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  72                                                         Description
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  76 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XmlCaseOrder.html">enumeration XmlCaseOrder</a></td>
  77 <td width="60%"> Specifies the sort order for upper and lower case letters.
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  81 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XmlDataType.html">enumeration XmlDataType</a></td>
  82 <td width="60%"> Specifies the data type used to determine sort order.
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  86 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XmlSortOrder.html">enumeration XmlSortOrder</a></td>
  87 <td width="60%"> Specifies the sort order.
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  91 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XPathNamespaceScope.html">enumeration XPathNamespaceScope</a></td>
  92 <td width="60%"> Defines the namespace scope. The enumeration can be passed to the  <a href="#MoveToFirstNamespace">XPathNavigator.MoveToFirstNamespace</a> and  <a href="#MoveToNextNamespace">XPathNavigator.MoveToNextNamespace</a> methods to specify the type of namespace node to move to.
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  96 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XPathNodeType.html">enumeration XPathNodeType</a></td>
  97 <td width="60%"> Specifies the XPath node types that can be returned from the  <a href="../System.Xml.XPath/types/XPathNavigator.html">XPathNavigator</a>. For more information on XPath node types, see the Data Model section of the W3C XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 Recommendation located at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model.
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 101 <td width="30%"><a href="types/XPathResultType.html">enumeration XPathResultType</a></td>
 102 <td width="60%"> Specifies the return type of the XPath expression.
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