Reading XML and its children Nodes and attributes

Question

Hello How to read XML nodes and attributes which is having unlimited child depth. Regards Gururaj

Tulasi · Answer

Hi Gururaj Chk this below code  u will get an idea how to get orders > order id =  1  > suborders > order id =  2  /> suborders > order > orders > If we execute the following piece of code… XDocument xDoc = XDocument .Load( orders.xml ); XElement [] xResultWithElements = xDoc.Root.Elements( order ).ToArray(); XElement [] xResultWithDescendants = xDoc.Root.Descendants( order ).ToArray(); xResultWithElements XElement array will contain 1 item and the xResultWithDescendants XElement array will contain 2 items Because the .Elements property look for elements only at the XElement being searched children nodes meanwhile .Descendants traverse all of the xml markup looking for matching nodes starting from the XElement being searched. If it helps you do not forget to mark it as accepted.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Except not all ways can read XML with an  unlimited child depth . That sounds like a poorly designed format. Hierarchical data is not stored that way unless someone does not know how else to do it. I assume that a schema cannot represent an  unlimited child depth .

Suthish Nair · Answer

using XElement is the fastest ways.. For other ways refer... http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/4073/different-ways-of-reading-an-xml-file.aspx

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Do you have a schema for it or can you create a schema?

Hemant Kumar · Answer

Hi Please see this Code Snippet for reading the XML XmlNodeList elemList = doc.GetElementsByTagName(...); for (int i = 0; i http://www.codeproject.com/KB/XML/csreadxml1.aspx