Question

I have XML that is being returned back from a rest service WCF. The following is an example of the XML

<string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">
<catalog version="1.1"><dataset id="354" name="Mariano - Ship Drift" description="Global Currents, Static" datatype="currents" rank="5" saropsrank="4" format="netcdf" starttime="1980-01-01T00:00:00" endtime="2019-01-01T00:00:00" extentleft="-180.0000" extentbottom="-90.0000" extentright="180.0000" extenttop="90.0000" source="STATIC" wmslayeridstr="MARIANO_currents" confidence="L" directionfrom="no" image="ne_ndbc.jpg" />
</catalog>
</string>

I need to get the value from id, name, description, etc… and put it into a list or a listbox.

WebResponse response = restWebRequest.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();

Reponse stream is the stream that holds the XML.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(responseStream);

var elem = doc.Descendants().FirstOrDefault(el => el.Name.LocalName == "dataset");
if(elem != null)
{
    var attID = elem.Attribute("id");
    if(attID != null)
        Console.WriteLine(attID.Value);
}

OR

You could directly get the IEnumerable with an anonymous type:

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);

var values = doc.Descendants("dataset")
                .Select(el => new { id = el.Attribute("id").Value, 
                                    name = el.Attribute("name").Value 
                                  }
                 );