Read XML Data from a Page ?

[WJ]

**: I m doing a cross-post here. it seems that XML folks does not deal with
Asp.Net form **

When you click on a link from a web site, it gives you a page exactly like
the following. How can I extract the data using code-behind without
requiring user to perform a "Save As" to an XML file ? I would like to read
the data and record it to a database without user touching it ! (My page is
..aspx)

************************************************** ****
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <NameList>
- <Names>
<LastName>Hamilton</LastName>
<FirstName>Rick</FirstName>
<MiddleNamae>M</MiddleNamae>
</Names>
- <Names>
<LastName>Elton</LastName>
<FirstName>John</FirstName>
<MiddleNamae>D</MiddleNamae>
</Names>
</NameList>
************************************************** ****

Thanks

John

[Denny Britz]

Hi,

you can do this by using System.Net:

WebClient client = new WebClient();
string xml = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(client.Downloa dData(url));
// process xml...

**: I m doing a cross-post here. it seems that XML folks does not deal with
Asp.Net form **

When you click on a link from a web site, it gives you a page exactly like
the following. How can I extract the data using code-behind without
requiring user to perform a "Save As" to an XML file ? I would like to read
the data and record it to a database without user touching it ! (My page is
.aspx)

************************************************** ****
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <NameList>
- <Names>
<LastName>Hamilton</LastName>
<FirstName>Rick</FirstName>
<MiddleNamae>M</MiddleNamae>
</Names>
- <Names>
<LastName>Elton</LastName>
<FirstName>John</FirstName>
<MiddleNamae>D</MiddleNamae>
</Names>
</NameList>
************************************************** ****

Thanks

John

[WJ]

"Denny Britz" <zo***@web.de> wrote in message
news:OU**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Hi,

you can do this by using System.Net:

WebClient client = new WebClient();
string xml =
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(client.Downloa dData(url));
// process xml...

Thanks Denny, That works very nicely.

John