Question

I have a link which gives a XML data. I want to process the data in my application.

How to handle this in C#?

Through XmlReader or do I need to download the XML data

Which one is the optimum way?

Answer 1

You can get the xml document from your link like this

    using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
    {            
        string xml = wc.DownloadString(url);

        XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
        xmlDoc.LoadXml(xml);

    }

No you can use System.Xml.Linq to parse the xmlDoc

// Create the query 
var custs = from c in xmlDoc.Elements("Customers") 
          select c ;

// Execute the query 
foreach (var customer in custs) 
{ 
     Console.WriteLine(customer); 
}