Question

I have an XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ticket>
    <comments type="array">
         <comment> 
               <attachments type="array">
                     <attachment>
                          <url>I NEED WHATEVER IS IN HERE</url>
                     </attachment>
               </attachments>
         </comment>
         <comment>
               <attachments type="array">
                     <attachment>
                          <url>I NEED WHATEVER IS IN HERE</url>
                     </attachment>
               </attachments>
         <comment>
     </comments>
</ticket>

How would I go about getting whatever is inside the URL tag and add it to a <List>? I’m using C#.

Answer 1

Use:

var result = XDocument.Parse(inputXml)
    .DescendantNodes().OfType<XText>().Select(e => e.Value).ToList();

Or using XPath:

var result = ((IEnumerable)XDocument.Parse(input).XPathEvaluate("//text()"))
    .Cast<XText>().ToList();

To retrieve text only from url element use:

var result = XDocument.Parse(inputXml)
        .Descendants("url").Select(e => e.Value).ToList();

or change above XPath: //url/text()