Simple XML parsing question

[Vegard Beider]

Hi.

I am new to both C# and XML parsing. I simply want to find out if a
node contains other nodes, and if it does i want to do something with
it. How can i find out in a simple way that in the example below both
<data> and <moredata> contains other nodes? I have been using both the
XPathNavigator and the XMLNodeReader without finding a cleaver way of
doing this...

XML example:

<data>
<elem>val<elem>
<elem>val<elem>
<moredata>
<elem>val<elem>
</moredata>
</data>

[Ed Courtenay]

Vegard Beider wrote:

Hi.

I am new to both C# and XML parsing. I simply want to find out if a
node contains other nodes, and if it does i want to do something with
it. How can i find out in a simple way that in the example below both
<data> and <moredata> contains other nodes? I have been using both the
XPathNavigator and the XMLNodeReader without finding a cleaver way of
doing this...

XML example:

<data>
<elem>val<elem>
<elem>val<elem>
<moredata>
<elem>val<elem>
</moredata>
</data>

You can either use the XmlNode.HasChildNodes property or the
XmlNodeReader.IsEmptyElement property

--

Ed Courtenay
[MCP, MCSD]
http://www.edcourtenay.co.uk

[Vegard Beider]

Ed Courtenay <re*****************************@edcourtenay.co.uk > wrote in message news:<#0**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...

<data>
<elem>val<elem>
<elem>val<elem>
<moredata>
<elem>val<elem>
</moredata>
</data>

You can either use the XmlNode.HasChildNodes property or the
XmlNodeReader.IsEmptyElement property

I tried using the IsEmptyElement none of the above nodes are empty
since they have a value, i want to know if a node contains other
nodes..