Question

I’m getting the name 'result' does not exist in the current context compilation error in the last few lines of my code.

Any idea what may be causing this?

class xmlreader
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load("file.xml");
        var lv1s = from lv1 in xdoc.Descendants("sitecollection")
                   select new
                   {
                       Header = lv1.Attribute("name").Value,
                       Children = lv1.Descendants("level2")
                   };
        foreach (var lv1 in lv1s)
        {
            result.AppendLine(lv1.Header);
            foreach (var lv2 in lv1.Children)
                result.AppendLine("   " + lv2.Attribute("name").Value);
        }

    }
}

Answer 1

In your code snippet, you never instantiate the “result” variable. Your code miss the following statement:

var result=new System.Text.StringBuilder();