Collection of XML Elements

[BillGatesFan]

Is there anyway to read a collection of xml elements in .NET? The XML
Reader class does not seem like it can do it. It reads the file
sequentially.

I want to read an xml file and get the collection of elements named
book. The for each book element I want to get its attributes and inner
element attributes.

Can this be done? Now it seems like you have to call readnextelement
multiple times.

Thanks in advance

[Martin Honnen]

BillGatesFan wrote:

Is there anyway to read a collection of xml elements in .NET? The XML
Reader class does not seem like it can do it. It reads the file
sequentially.

I want to read an xml file and get the collection of elements named
book. The for each book element I want to get its attributes and inner
element attributes.

Do you know System.Xml.XmlDocument or
System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument/XPathNavigator? Both read the complete
XML document into a tree structure and then allow you to use XPath to
select elements. So with XmlDocument and C# you could do e.g.
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load("file.xml");
XmlNodeList books = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("//book");
then you can iterate over the node list and do what you need to do (e.g.
access attributes or access child elements) for each book element node.


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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[BillGatesFan]

On Apr 10, 12:28 pm, Martin Honnen <[e-mail]:

BillGatesFanwrote:

Is there anyway to read a collection of xml elements in .NET? The XML
Reader class does not seem like it can do it. It reads the file
sequentially.

I want to read an xml file and get the collection of elements named
book. The for each book element I want to get its attributes and inner
element attributes.

Do you know System.Xml.XmlDocument or
System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument/XPathNavigator? Both read the complete
XML document into a tree structure and then allow you to use XPath to
select elements. So with XmlDocument and C# you could do e.g.
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load("file.xml");
XmlNodeList books = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("//book");
then you can iterate over the node list and do what you need to do (e.g.
access attributes or access child elements) for each book element node.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Thanks you helped me out