Question

I will give a set of simple xml lines I found in w3schools XML example.

I want to know how I will be able to access these data from my Console application (I inserted a app.config into by console application project)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <bookstore>
   <book category="cooking">
     <title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title>
     <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>
     <year>2005</year>
     <price>30.00</price>
   </book>
   <book category="children">
     <title lang="en">Harry Potter</title>
     <author>J K. Rowling</author>
     <year>2005</year>
     <price>29.99</price>
   </book>
 </bookstore>

Answer 1

I’ll assume that you just want to read the XML data. It doesn’t really look like configuration so I suppose you’re better off putting this in a regular XML file.

You could parse the XML like this:

var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(@"XmlFile.xml");

var root = doc.DocumentElement;
if (root == null)
    return;

var books = root.SelectNodes("book");
if(books == null)
    return;

foreach (XmlNode book in books)
{
    var title = book.SelectSingleNode("title");
    var auth = book.SelectSingleNode("author");
    //And so on
}