Question

Good Day,

I have been playing with the ToDicationary() extension method

var document = XDocument.Load(@"..\..\Info.xml");
XNamespace ns = "http://www.someurl.org/schemas";

var myData = document.Descendants(ns + "AlbumDetails").ToDictionary
    (
        e => e.Name.LocalName.ToString(),
        e => e.Value
    );

Console.WriteLine("Writing music...");
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in myData)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", kvp.Key, kvp.Value);
}

with the following XML data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Database xmlns="http://www.someurl.org/schemas">
    <Info>
        <AlbumDetails>
            <Artist>Ottmar Liebert</Artist>
            <Song>Barcelona Nights</Song>
            <Origin>Spain</Origin>
        </AlbumDetails>
    </Info>
</Database>

and I’m not getting the output I want. Instead I’m getting this:

Writing music...
AlbumDetails = Ottmar LiebertBarcelona NightsSpain

Instead, I want myData(“Artist”) = “Ottmar Liebert”, etc…

Is it possible to do with Descendants?

TIA,

coson

Answer 1

The following will simply get the AlbumDetails node:

document.Descendants(ns + "AlbumDetails")

You want its direct descendants (child nodes) – since these are also elements:

document.Descendants(ns + "AlbumDetails").Elements()

The full line would be:

var myData = document.Descendants(ns + "AlbumDetails")
             .Elements().ToDictionary(
                                      e => e.Name.LocalName.ToString(),
                                      e => e.Value
                                     );