Question

I have XML file and I need to parse it and import data to database. I using XDocument to parse file, but there is question:

Sample of XML:

<a b="1">dfas</a>
<a b="2">qwsd</a>
<a b="3">egfs</a>
<a b="4">ghfg</a>

My code:

 XElement tag;
 record.A = tag.Element("a").Value;

I need to import to record. A value of element with attribute b=4. How can I do it? Thank you!

Answer 1

record.A = tag.Elements("a").First(a => a.Attribute("b").Value == "4").Value;

or

record.A = (string)tag.Elements("a").FirstOrDefault(a => a.Attribute("b").Value == "4");

or

record.A = (string)tag.XPathSelectElement("//a[@b='4']");