XML parsing

[DotNetNewbie]

Hello,
My XML looks like this:

<cars>
<mfg name="honda">
<car name="accord" />
<car name="civic" />
</mfg>
<mfg name="ford">
<car name="escort" />
<car name="taurus" />
</mfg>
</cars>

I want to get ONLY the cars for a specific mfg. example: get me all
the car nodes that are ford's.
What is the most effecient way of doing this?

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

DotNetNewbie <sn***********@yahoo.comwrote:

My XML looks like this:

<cars>
<mfg name="honda">
<car name="accord" />
<car name="civic" />
</mfg>
<mfg name="ford">
<car name="escort" />
<car name="taurus" />
</mfg>
</cars>

I want to get ONLY the cars for a specific mfg. example: get me all
the car nodes that are ford's.
What is the most effecient way of doing this?

Do you really need the most *efficient* way of doing this rather than,
say, the most readable or maintainable? How big is your file going to
be in real life? Is it actually a file, or do you already have it in
memory?

Personally, I'd use LINQ to XML if .NET 3.5 is an option.
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

DotNetNewbie <sn***********@yahoo.comwrote:

could you help me out with the code? i'm not too familiar with xpath

I'm afraid I don't have time right now, but http://w3schools.com/xpath
is an excellent resource, and there are some good examples in MSDN.

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