Question

I am getting response from web service in xml format and data are inside cData section in xml nodes. now when i am trying to extract node value then getting value with cdata text. how can i remove this and get text inside cdata. Please suggest me the best way of doing it. write now i am using regular expression to remove cdata from the result value. Thanks in advance.![!CDATA[Xyz]].

<ResumeParserData>
    <ResumeFileName><![CDATA[]]></ResumeFileName>
    <ParsingDate><![CDATA[3/29/2012 1:37:33 AM]]></ParsingDate>
    <TitleName><![CDATA[]]></TitleName>
    <FirstName><![CDATA[abc]]></FirstName>
    <Middlename><![CDATA[Kr]]></Middlename>
    <LastName><![CDATA[abc]]></LastName>
    <Email><![CDATA[[e-mail]]]></Email>
    <Phone><![CDATA[[phone]]]></Phone>
</ResumeParserData>

Answer 1

right now i am using regular expression to remove cdata from the result value

Well I’d stop using regular expressions to parse XML to start with.

Use an XML API – LINQ to XML is lovely, for example. This should transparently let you get at the text, without you even having to know it was ever in a CDATA section unless you really want to. For example, with an XML file like this:

<parent>
  <child>
    <![CDATA[Foo]]>
  </child>
</parent>

We can get to the text like this:

using System;
using System.Xml.Linq;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var doc = XDocument.Load("test.xml");
        var child = doc.Root.Element("child");
        var text = child.Value;
        Console.WriteLine("Text: {0}", text);
    }
}

EDIT: With a slight change to the code above:

using System;
using System.Xml.Linq;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var doc = XDocument.Load("test.xml");
        foreach (var child in doc.Root.Elements())
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}",
                              child.Name, child.Value);
        }
    }
}

… when I run that on the XML in the question, I get:

ResumeFileName:
ParsingDate: 3/29/2012 1:37:33 AM
TitleName:
FirstName: abc
Middlename: Kr
LastName: abc
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]