This class resolves external resources according to their URIs. This class is used to retrieve an external DTD or Schema in XML documents, and also obtains resources from imported stylesheets (<xsl:import>) and included files (<xml:include>). This abstract class is implemented by XmlUrlResolver.

public abstract class XmlResolver {
// Protected Constructors
   protected method XmlResolver();  
// Public Instance Properties
   public abstract field ICredentials Credentials{set; } 
// Public Instance Methods
   public abstract method object GetEntity(Uri absoluteUri, 
        string role, Type ofObjectToReturn);  
   public abstract method Uri ResolveUri(Uri baseUri, 
        string relativeUri);  
}

Subclasses

XmlUrlResolver

Passed To

XmlDocument.XmlResolver, XmlTextReader.XmlResolver, XmlValidatingReader.XmlResolver, System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform.{Load(), XmlResolver}