Question

Hy,

I have for example this xml:

<books>
  <book1 name="Cosmic">
    <attribute value="good"/>
  </book1>
</books>  

How can I display it in a listBox control line by line, that the final result it will be a listbox with 5 rows in this case?

In this moment I am prasing the XML using LINQ to XML like this:

 foreach (XElement element in document.DescendantNodes())
   {
     MyListBox.Items.Add(element.ToString());
   }

But the final result puts every xml node in one list-box item (including child-nodes).

Does anyone has any idea how can I put the xml line by line in list-box items?

Thanks.

Jeff

Answer 1

A simple solution would use a recursive function like the following:

public void FillListBox(ListBox listBox, XElement xml)
{
    listBox.Items.Add("<" + xml.Name + ">");
    foreach (XNode node in xml.Nodes())
    {
        if (node is XElement)
            // sub-tag
            FillListBox(listBox, (XElement) node);
        else
            // piece of text
            listBox.Items.Add(node.ToString());
    }
    listBox.Items.Add("</" + xml.Name + ">");
}

Of course, this one will print only the tag names (e.g. <book1> in your example) and not the attributes (name="Cosmic" etc.). I’m sure you can put those in yourself.