I need to read a xml document in c# and drop the data to notepad

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I need to read a xml document in c# and drop the data to notepad
This is the XML File(I DONT WANT TO WRITE THE TAGS TO NOTEPAD,I ONLY THE INFO)
Please Help!

<Visitors><br />
  <Visitor><br />
    <FirstName>Test1</FirstName><br />
    <LastName>Test12</LastName><br />
    <ContactNo>1234567890</ContactNo><br />
    <Email>test@test.com</Email><br />
    <Date>7/17/2013 9:04:48 AM</Date><br />
  </Visitor><br />
</Visitors>

Posted 16-Jul-13 20:10pm

Hawkeye101

Updated 16-Jul-13 21:06pm

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Solution 3

C#

private static DataSet ReadXMLFile(string filePath)
       {
           try
           {
               DataSet ds = new DataSet();
               if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filePath))
               {
                   ds.ReadXml(filePath);
               }
               return ds;
           }
           catch (Exception)
           {

               throw;
           }
       }

data will be save in dataset know you can write data as you want.

helping links for writing on file

Write to a Text File

TextWriter

Posted 16-Jul-13 20:40pm

MuhammadUSman1

Solution 1

Try this link for reading the XML. Use StreamWriter to write the output to Text File.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307548[^]

Posted 16-Jul-13 20:16pm

ArunRajendra

Solution 2

quick 'n dirty:

C#

var xmlContent = File.ReadAllText(pathToXml);
File.WriteAllText(pathToTextfile, xmlContent);

Posted 16-Jul-13 20:19pm

midnight_

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Hawkeye101 17-Jul-13 2:35am

This is My code but it isnt writing the info to the text document!
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;

namespace ReadXMLfromFile
{
///

/// Summary description for Class1.
///

class Class1
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader ("Visitors.xml");
while (reader.Read())
{
switch (reader.NodeType)
{
case XmlNodeType.Element: // The node is an element.
Console.WriteLine (reader.Value);

break;
case XmlNodeType.Text: //Display the text in each element.
Console.WriteLine (reader.Value);
break;

}
}
Console.ReadLine();
var xmlContent = File.ReadAllText(@"C:\Users\Geeth\Desktop\First Project\ConsoleApplication1\ConsoleApplication1\Visitors.xml");
File.WriteAllText(@"C:\Users\Geeth\Desktop\First Project\ConsoleApplication1\ConsoleApplication1\Written XML.txt", xmlContent); }
}
}

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midnight_ · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-16T22:10:00

Solution 4

Hi afshandc - this should to the trick:

C#

string onlyContent = string.Empty;

XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument();
xdoc.Load(pathToXml);

var visitors = xdoc.SelectNodes("Visitors/Visitor");
for (int i = 0; i < visitors.Count; i++)
{
   //headlining the new entry
   onlyContent += string.Format("----VISITOR {0}------\r\n",i);

   //read all nodes innertext 
   foreach (XmlNode node in visitors[i].ChildNodes)
     onlyContent += string.Format("{0}\r\n", node.InnerText);
}

File.WriteAllText(yourOutputfile, onlyContent);

Posted 16-Jul-13 22:10pm

midnight_

Updated 16-Jul-13 22:26pm

v2

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Hawkeye101 17-Jul-13 5:24am

Still ddnt work!Throws an XML exception unhanded error!!

H.Brydon 17-Jul-13 12:49pm

I am not a C# person but this solution seems to be the closest to the answer (+4). If you don't want the xml tags, you want to retrieve the innerHtml or innerText from either the "Visitors" or "Visitor" nodes. This can be a one-liner. You don't need to do it in a loop.

midnight_ 18-Jul-13 1:18am

Brydon is right - this could be a one-liner. However if you use just the innerText of the whole document, you would get one string with no linebreak or spaces between the elements.

@afshandc: do you got a error message?

Hawkeye101 18-Jul-13 1:44am

@midnight_ Thanks got it done! :)