An attribute (for example, id='123' ).

A CDATA section (for example, <![CDATA[my escaped text]]> ).

A comment (for example, <!-- my comment --> ).

A document object that, as the root of the document tree, provides access to the entire XML document.

A document fragment.

The document type declaration, indicated by the following tag (for example, <!DOCTYPE...> ).

An element (for example, <item> ).

An end element tag (for example, </item> ).

Returned when XmlReader gets to the end of the entity replacement as a result of a call to XmlReader.ResolveEntity.

An entity declaration (for example, <!ENTITY...> ).

A reference to an entity (for example, &num; ).

This is returned by the System.Xml.XmlReader if a Read method has not been called.

A notation in the document type declaration (for example, <!NOTATION...> ).

A processing instruction (for example, <?pi test?> ).

White space between markup in a mixed content model or white space within the xml:space="preserve" scope.

The text content of a node.

White space between markup.

The XML declaration (for example, <?xml version='1.0'?> ).