How to read an xml file

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I'm using c# .net and need to find out how to read an xml file. I found a couple of references but I'm still not sure that c# actually has functions to do what I need. My references are http://andrewsolymosi.sys-con.com/node/40761/mobile[^]

And Introduction to XML and XSLT in C#.Net[^]

For the first reference, I thought it had an example of taking a string and putting it in an xml class for further processing later, but I'm not seeing that now. I know how to read the file into a string, but not how to process the file into usable xml.

The second reference doesn't seem to be what I need either. I have xml already and didn't want to re-process it bit by bit into nodes, attributes, and elements. Surely there must be a good way to do this easily with the functions of c#.

Does anyone have an example of this?

Thanks!

Posted 30-Jul-12 3:43am

MichCl

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Please see my short overview of different methods of XML parsing:

Use System.Xml.XmlDocument class. It implements DOM interface; this way is the easiest and good enough if the size if the document is not too big.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx[^].
Use the class System.Xml.XmlTextReader; this is the fastest way of reading, especially is you need to skip some data.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlreader.aspx[^].
Use the class System.Xml.Linq.XDocument; this is the most adequate way similar to that of XmlDocument, supporting LINQ to XML Programming.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx[^], http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387063.aspx[^].

I'm not sure you really need working with XML directly. Chances are, you would rather need serialization, in particular, Data Contract. Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733127.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 30-Jul-12 13:39pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Check this article. I have explained briefly. Also source code is attached.

XML to DataSet or GridView and back[^]

Posted 30-Jul-12 4:35am

Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman

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This talks about Generate Excel from XML and Generate XML from Excel[^]

Posted 30-Jul-12 15:12pm

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derodevil · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-30T03:52:00

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Try this Check this[^]
And this Using XML in C# in the simplest way[^]

Posted 30-Jul-12 3:52am

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