Question

I am using traditional XmlReader to parse a xml document into a dictionary? However i am in search for less complicated method minimum lines of code. I have the following Xml document

<Msg>
  <field id="0" value="0100"/>
  <field id="3" value="310000"/>
  <field id="7" value="0101150110"/>  
  <field id="11" value="000002"/>
</Msg>

Is it possible to split the following xml document into a dictionary object with key being the attribute and value being the value of that element?

eg:-
Key = 0 value =0100

Answer 1

Rather than using XmlReader, I’d suggest using LINQ to XML, at which point it’s really simple:

var dictionary = document.Descendants("field")
                         .ToDictionary(x => (int) x.Attribute("id"),
                                       x => (string) x.Attribute("value"));