Question

I apologize if this was asked before. (I’m just learning this.)

Say, I have the following XML:

<Row>
<c0>1</c0>
<c1>31b64f1cb075</c1>
<c2>Developer</c2>
<c3/>
<c4/>
<c5/>
<c6/>
<c7/>
<c8>USA</c8>
<c9>http://www.microsoft.com</c9>
<c10>[e-mail]</c10>
<c11/>
<c12/>
<c13/>
<c14>-2147483648</c14>
<c15>2012-03-08T09:55:42-08:00</c15>
<c16>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</c16>
<c17>587312C</c17>
</Row>

Say, I get to the “row” element by using:

//xmlReader is of type XmlReader
xmlReader.ReadToFollowing("Row");

But how do I collect all “c*” child elements not knowing their names and how many of them are there?

Answer 1

You can also use an XmlDocument to load your xml and simply loop through the childnodes like this

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml("yourxml");

XmlNode root = doc.FirstChild;

//Display the contents of the child nodes.
if (root.HasChildNodes)
{
  for (int i=0; i<root.ChildNodes.Count; i++)
  {
    Console.WriteLine(root.ChildNodes[i].InnerText);
  }
}

You can read more about it here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode.childnodes.aspx

Hope it helps!