XML construction in C#

Question

Currently i need to construct and update large xml files. So what is the best C# xml parser to create or update the xml files? I heard about LINQ in c#, can this be used?

Answer 1

For really large documents, you may want to use a plain XmlReader/XmlWriter pipelined approach, since this avoids loading the whole file into memory, which is the case with both XmlDocument DOM and LINQ-to-SQL.