XML Nodes conversion to Hashtable

[Manish]

Hi m not able to convert the node values of a XML file to Hashtable

Actaully i need to traverse the XML Nodes again and again and want to pick
values
on filters

what i want is to stroe the XML values in the Hashtable and return then from
Hashtable (the hashtable will be filled only once)
this will optimise the performance because the XML is not updated (or
updated rarely)

Thanks in advance

[Gadget]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:59:01 -0800, Manish wrote:

Hi m not able to convert the node values of a XML file to Hashtable

Actaully i need to traverse the XML Nodes again and again and want to pick
values
on filters

what i want is to stroe the XML values in the Hashtable and return then from
Hashtable (the hashtable will be filled only once)
this will optimise the performance because the XML is not updated (or
updated rarely)

Thanks in advance

I assume you always know the exact key of the items you wish to locate in
the hash table, otherwise a hash table will not work as you can't iterate
through its contents. Perhaps you need a List<instead?
What is the problem you are having? XML files don't have nodes, so what
have you read the file into? Assuming you've loaded it into an XmlDocument
then you can just recurse down the tree and add the nodes to the hash
table.

Please explain where you're having difficulty.

Cheers,
Gadget

[Gadget]

Hi Gadget

>
Let me explain my problem first

I have an XML File (Containing information about my application
configuration it is other than app.config file)

i have to read this file many a times in the application but the file is
updated very rarely.

so what i want is when the application starts i will load this XML file
completely into a HashTable (because retrieving information from HashTable
will be must optimised way) and whenever an updation in the file occurs i
will reload the XML file into the same Hash Table.

For this i need to Load the XML document into the XMLDocument
now i have to traverse through the XMLDocument completely and write its
individual node values to the HashTable
So this is the actual scenario

Well this is a requirement, not a problem.
What is the *problem* you are having? I don't see anything complex here.

Cheers,
Gadget

[Manish]

That is what my problem is
How to convert an XML Document to a HashTable entry??????
i need code of it in VB.Net (if possible)
"Gadget" wrote:

Hi Gadget

Let me explain my problem first

I have an XML File (Containing information about my application
configuration it is other than app.config file)

i have to read this file many a times in the application but the file is
updated very rarely.

so what i want is when the application starts i will load this XML file
completely into a HashTable (because retrieving information from HashTable
will be must optimised way) and whenever an updation in the file occurs i
will reload the XML file into the same Hash Table.

For this i need to Load the XML document into the XMLDocument
now i have to traverse through the XMLDocument completely and write its
individual node values to the HashTable
So this is the actual scenario

Well this is a requirement, not a problem.
What is the *problem* you are having? I don't see anything complex here.

Cheers,
Gadget