Question

I have got below xml format with me and I am using .NET 2.0.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<publicationsList>
  <publication tcmid="tcm:0-226-1">
    <name>00 Primary Parent</name>
  </publication>
  <publication tcmid="tcm:0-227-1">
    <name>01 Group Parent</name>
  </publication>
  <publication tcmid="tcm:0-228-1">
    <name>02 Developer Library</name>
  </publication>
  <publication tcmid="tcm:0-229-1">
    <name>03C Content Library</name>
  </publication>
</publicationsList>

Now I want to populate my dropdownlist from the above XML, my dropdownlist TEXT will be “name” node value and dropdownlist VALUE will be “tcmid” attribute value using a method in C#.

Please suggest!!

Answer 1

You could do something like this

Using Linq

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(@"Yourxmlfile.xml");
            var query = from xEle in xDoc.Descendants("publication")
                        select new ListItem(xEle.Element("name").Value, xEle.Attribute("tcmid").Value);

            ddlList.DataValueField = "value";
            ddlList.DataTextField = "text";
            ddlList.DataSource = query;
            ddlList.DataBind();

Update:
Using XmlDocument

XmlDocument xDocument = new XmlDocument();
            xDocument.Load(@"YourXmlFile.xmll");
            foreach (XmlNode node in xDocument.GetElementsByTagName("publication"))
            {
                ddlList.Items.Add(new ListItem(node.SelectSingleNode("name").InnerText,
                    node.Attributes["tcmid"].Value));
            }
            ddlList.DataValueField = "value";
            ddlList.DataTextField = "text";            
            ddlList.DataBind();