Question

I have an xml response string and I want to change a value inside and log it.

<xml>
<ns2:abcd>
<password>sample</password>
</ns2:abcd>

I want to change the password value into encrypted version.

I am have tried using XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode but was thinking is there any better way than this?

Answer 1

Btw you need ns2 namespace to be declared, otherwise your xml will not be valid. After adding namespace definition, you can parse and modify your xml with Linq to Xml:

XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
var passwordElement = xdoc.XPathSelectElement("//password");
passwordElement.Value = Encrypt((string)passwordElement);
xdoc.Save(path_to_xml);