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XmlTextReader Normalization Property tells whether to normalize white space and attribute values
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Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Public Class Sample
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim xmlFrag As String = "<item attr1='1 2 3'/><item attr2=''/>"
Dim nsmgr As XmlNamespaceManager = New XmlNamespaceManager(New NameTable())
Dim context As XmlParserContext = New XmlParserContext(Nothing, nsmgr, Nothing, XmlSpace.Preserve)
Dim reader As XmlTextReader = New XmlTextReader(xmlFrag, XmlNodeType.Element, context)
reader.Read()
reader.Normalization = False
Console.WriteLine("Attribute value:{0}", reader.GetAttribute("attr1"))
reader.Normalization = True
Console.WriteLine("Attribute value:{0}", reader.GetAttribute("attr1"))
reader.Normalization = False
reader.Read()
reader.MoveToContent()
Console.WriteLine("Attribute value:{0}", reader.GetAttribute("attr2"))
reader.Close()
End Sub
End Class
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