Question

In the below xml file:

    <SVCs>
         <SVC>
              <id>001</id>
              <request>Send SMS SVC 001 Request</request>
              <reposne>Send SMS SVC 001 Response</reposne>
         </SVC>
         <SVC>
               <id>002</id>
               <request>Send SMS SVC 002 Request</request>
               <reposne>Send SMS SVC 002 Response</reposne>
        </SVC>
    </SVCs>

I need to search for id say 002, and get the request and response for the same in form of plain text. i am working in winforms C# .net 4.0. How do i achieve this?
I am using XMLDocument namespace to parse through the document.

I am really new to XML library and i think this is one of the basic questions. I really googled a lot but couldn’t find how to get the inner text by searching for a tag.

Answer 1

I would use linq2xml

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
var svc = xDoc.XPathSelectElement("//SVC[id='002']");

var req = svc.Element("request").Value;
var resp = svc.Element("reposne").Value;

or

var svc = xDoc.Descendants("SVC")
              .First(s => s.Element("id").Value == "002");

PS: I keep the same typo reposne