Question

I’m trying to populate an array with the following xml:

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
   <data>
         <item>
              <date>1307018090</date>
              <price>10.4718867</price>
              <low>10.38100000</low>
              <high>10.49000000</high>
              <nicedate>14:39</nicedate>
         </item>
         <item>
              ...
         </item>

and so on

I’m using this Linq-query, which to me means that It’ll create one object per :

var items = from item in doc.Element("data").Descendants()
                    select new Currency
                    {
                        Close = item.Element("price").Value.ToString(),
                        Date = item.Element("date").Value.ToString(),
                        Low = item.Element("low").Value.ToString(),
                        High = item.Element("high").Value.ToString(),
                        Time = item.Element("nicedate").Value.ToString()
                    };

And when I foreach through items, only one item gets selected. I’m not very used to Linq so I can’t figure out how to properly construct this statement. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You need to start the Linq-Xml like so

var items = 
from item in 
doc.Element("data")
.Elements("item")