Well, no clue about speed, BUT memory wise: The DataSet (above an XML document) is built on top o fan XmlDataDocument DOM like presentation, so it uses more memory than the DOM presentation.
Regards Thomas Tomiczek THONA Consulting Ltd. (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Torsten Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Freitag, 6. Juni 2003 15:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I've one of these very pretty DataSet instances. But I don't > want to use SQLs select syntax to query my DataSet, I want to > use XPath. Therefore I attach my DataSet to an XmlDocument > and use SelectSingleNode or even the methods of > IXPathNavigator. But what does this cost with respect to > performance and memory consumption? What is faster - > DataTable.Select or XmlDocument.SelectNode/SelectSingleNode? > > Who can enlighten me? > > Torsten > >
