Question

I have this XML:

<root>
      <data name="lnkViewResultResource1.Text" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>bekijk de resultaten</value>
  </data>
  <data name="lnkVoteResource1.Text" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>stem</value>
  </data>
  <data name="number of results" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>er waren reeds {0} stemmen op deze poll {1}</value>
  </data>
</root>

I want to retrieve the “data” values, and for this I used:

Public Shared Function getlabels(ByVal filename As String) As Array
    Dim labels = From l In XElement.Load(filename).Descendants("root").Elements("data") Select l
    Return labels.ToArray

But, unfortunately, it is not working, it is not getting anything.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Alf.

Answer 1

You’re loading the <root> XElement and asking it for descendants called root. Just get rid of the Descendants("root") call and it should be okay.

On the other hand, the query expression is pretty pointless… just use:

Return XElement.Load(filename).Elements("data").ToArray