Read Xml file in c# and store attribute values in arrays

[smith Edward]

I had xml file. How to read the xml file in c# and after reading the file we can store the xml attribute names and values are stored in arrays. I am newer to programming language.. So please help me to write the code in c# by using windowsApllications only..

My Xml file is given below..

<GlobalActivities>
  <Activity Name="LoadImage" LibraryName="Activity.dll" ClassName="Activity.LoadImage" IsDrop="false">
    <Shape Name="LoadImageShape" LibName="DiagramControl.dll" ClassName="LoadImageShape">
    </Shape>
  </Activity>
<Activity Name="SaveImage" LibraryName="Save.Activity.dll" ClassName="Activity.SaveImage" IsDrop="true">
    <Shape Name="SaveImageShape" LibraryName="DiagramControl.dll" ClassName="SaveImageShape">
    </Shape>
  </Activity>
<Activity Name="EditImage" LibraryName="Edit.Activity.dll" ClassName="Activity.EditImage" IsDrop="false">
</Activity>
</GlobalActivity>

In the above code some activities didn't contain shape. In these case shape element is false, so that it is no need to store all shape attribute valus otherwise it store all shape attribute values..

[Paul Johnson]

What code have you currently got around this?

[Michal Gawlas]

You're making an assumption that you must store the values somewhere.
If you use the XmlDocument class, all nodes and attributes are accessible as appropriately named collections in the XmlDocument you loaded the file into. No need to convert it into any sort of static arrays.

using System.Xml;

Then to actually load the file something like this:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
try
{
 doc.Load(FilePath);
}
catch (Exception err)
{
 MessageBox.Show(err.Message);
}
 

Where FilePath is the path to your XML. Then check the attributes of doc.