Writes the first and last book nodes out to the console. : XmlTextWriter « XML « VB.Net Tutorial

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Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml

public class Sample

  public shared sub Main()

    Dim reader as XmlTextReader = new XmlTextReader("books.xml")
    reader.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None

    'Move the reader to the first book element.
    reader.MoveToContent()
    reader.Read()

    'Create a writer that outputs to the console.
    Dim writer as XmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter (Console.Out)
    writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented
    
    'Write the start tag.
    writer.WriteStartElement("myBooks")

    writer.WriteNode(reader, false)

    reader.Skip()

    writer.WriteNode(reader, false)
    writer.WriteEndElement()

    writer.Close()
    reader.Close()

  end sub
end class