Question

I want implement multiple languages in my program. I’m using an xml file like this one:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root> 
 <language id="EN">
 <String id="rxtst_found">.rxtst found</String>
 <String id="exe_found">.exe found</String>
 <String id="rxtst_not_found">No .rxtst found</String>
 <String id="exe_not_found">No .exe Found</String>
 </language>
 <language id="DE">
    <String id="exe_found">.exe gefunden</String>
    <String id="rxtst_found">.rxtst gefunden</String>
    <String id="rxtst_not_found">Keine .rxtst gefunden</String>
    <String id="exe_not_found">Keine .exe gefunden</String>
 </language>
     </root>

I want to call the language like this:

getStringValue(String string_id, language lang) ...

Whats the best way to parse the language correctly?
I thought about something like

           XmlNodeList xmlNodesByLanguage = xdoc.GetElementsByTagName("language");
...
           String tempLang =  xmlNodesByLanguage.Item(i).Attributes["id"].Value;

But I have no clue…

Answer 1

I deserialized my xml by using xsd.exe and I read the data by using this code:

            //deserializes language xml

            XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(root));
            String asdf = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

 FileStream fs = new FileStream(asdf + "\\XML\\language.xml", FileMode.Open);

                XmlReader reader = new XmlTextReader(fs);
                //root = head node of the xml file

 root ts = (root)ser.Deserialize(reader);
            fs.Close();
            //sprachennummer nach enum in Siro_Settings
            int languageNr = (int)lang;

            //sucht nach dem passenden Value zu der stringID und gibt ihn zurück
            for (int j = 0; j < ts.Items[languageNr].String.Length; j++)
            {
                if (ts.Items[languageNr].String[j].id.Equals(stringID))
                {
                    return ts.Items[languageNr].String[j].Value;
                }

            }