Question

I am currently working with an XML file that keeps race information in XML format like so

 <Row xmlns="Practice2a">
<RecordType>Qualifying Classification</RecordType> 
<_x0030_02150Position>3</_x0030_02150Position> 
<Class>250</Class> 
<_x0030_02150MachineNo>11</_x0030_02150MachineNo> 
<RiderName>Kevin James</RiderName> 
<Machine>Honda</Machine> 
<_x0030_02150ToDBehind>29.680</_x0030_02150ToDBehind> 
<_x0030_02150BestLapSpeed>97.1415157615475</_x0030_02150BestLapSpeed> 
<_x0030_02150ToDBestLapTime>5:32.274</_x0030_02150ToDBestLapTime> 
<_x0030_02150BestOnLap>7</_x0030_02150BestOnLap> 
</Row>

I want to create a plain txt file with just some of the information , I just want in kind off in a table format e.g

pos     Name      racetime    and BestLaptime

I have attempted to remove the tags from the file and create a txt file so now I get
I create a line count to possibly use as delimiters for extracting the right fields.

139 Qualifying Classification
140 3
141 250
142 11
Driver Name: Machine Type: Kevin James
145 Honda
146 29.680
147 97.1415157615475
148 5:32.274

My code is getting quite out of hand and I am wondering if there is a much better way to achieve this rather than adding 14 to count each time , that’s how i am displaying Driver Name:” instead of a number.

Any pointers as to how you would go about this would be a great insight.

Answer 1

A quick solution would be to read your xml in XmlDocument (or even simpler to a dataset), and generate the text file in your c# code.

See:

• Walkthrough: Reading XML Data into a Dataset
• Read XML Attribute using XmlDocument

Alternate approach would be to define an xslt to reformat your xml to layout of your choice. Normally its a preferred approach for generating html docs from your xml datam, though could be used to transform into normal text reports. You can read more about it on

• W3School- XSLT
• XSLT Basics