how to get root element attribute of xml file with c#?

[Shuan]

Hi,
I have a xml file as follow:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="gb2312"?>
<Mydata date="2006-05-16">
<personalData>
<title>good book</title>
<author>james</author>
<price>58.3</price>
</personalData>
<personalData>
<title>nice book</title>
<author>peter</author>
<price>30.0</price>
</personalData>
</Mydata>
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my problem is: how to get root element Mydata's attribute date with c#?

thanks.

[dickster]

// Heres a possible solution
// Seeing the XML is small its fair to load it into an XmlDocument
object.
// Then use some Xpath to get your value

using System.Xml;

XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument();
xdoc.Load(<< URL for the file containing the XML Document to load >>);
string yourDate = xdoc.SelectSingleNode("/Mydata/@date").Value ;

Dickster

[Shuan]

I'll tyr it, Thanks.

"dickster" <gd***@kerrhenderson.com>
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// Heres a possible solution
// Seeing the XML is small its fair to load it into an XmlDocument
object.
// Then use some Xpath to get your value

using System.Xml;

XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument();
xdoc.Load(<< URL for the file containing the XML Document to load >>);
string yourDate = xdoc.SelectSingleNode("/Mydata/@date").Value ;

Dickster