Question

I am receiving dynamic xml where I won’t know the attribute names, if you’ll look at the xml and code… I tried to make a simple example, I can get the attribute values i.e. ‘myName’, ‘myNextAttribute’, and ‘blah’, but I can’t get the attribute names i.e. ‘name’, ‘nextAttribute’, and ‘etc1’. Any ideas, I figure it has to be something easy I’m missing…but I’m sure missing it.

    static void Main(string[] args)     {         string xml = '<test name=\'myName\' nextAttribute=\'myNextAttribute\' etc1=\'blah\'/>';          TextReader sr = new StringReader(xml);          using (XmlReader xr = XmlReader.Create(sr))         {             while (xr.Read())             {                 switch (xr.NodeType)                 {                     case XmlNodeType.Element:                         if (xr.HasAttributes)                         {                             for (int i = 0; i < xr.AttributeCount; i++)                             {                                 System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(xr.GetAttribute(i));                             }                         }                         break;                     default:                         break;                 }             }         }     } 

Answer 1

You can see in MSDN:

if (reader.HasAttributes) {   Console.WriteLine('Attributes of <' + reader.Name + '>');   while (reader.MoveToNextAttribute()) {     Console.WriteLine(' {0}={1}', reader.Name, reader.Value);   }   // Move the reader back to the element node.   reader.MoveToElement(); }