Question

I would like to parse this XML :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>
<TEST>Login inexistant</TEST>

I wrote this code

var result  = from item in XElement.Parse(m_strRetour).Descendants("TEST")
              select item;
return result.First().ToString();

m_strRetour is a string that contains my XML.

After execution, result is empty.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

TEST seems to be your root node, so it can’t be a Descendant.

To get the value out of it you could try this.

var xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='Windows-1252' ?><TEST>Login inexistant</TEST>";

var result  = XElement.Parse(xml);
var value = result.Value;