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Asked: 2026-06-09T19:21:19+00:00

It may sounds a very basic question, but here it is. I have this

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It may sounds a very basic question, but here it is. I have this sample XML loaded in DOM

<message from="fromvalue" to="tovalue" xml:lang="en" type="chat">
   <thread>{fe422b47-9856-4404-8c35-5ff45e43ee01}</thread> 
   <body>Test buddy</body> 
   <active xmlns="http://XXXX.org/protocol/chatstates" /> 
 </message>

This i am receiving from request body using the following piece of code 

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader ( HttpContext.Request.InputStream,        System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 );
string sXMLRequest = reader.ReadToEnd ( );
XmlDocument xmlRequest = new XmlDocument ( );
xmlRequest.LoadXml ( sXMLRequest );

Now all i need to have is value of three things in three different variable

string bodytext = {body element inner text}
string msgfrom = {from attribute value of message element}
string msgto =   {to attribute value of message element}

I am using C#, can anyone put some minutes from their precious time and guide me, will appreciate that highly

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’d use LINQ to XML here – it’s much simpler:

    XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(HttpContext.Request.InputStream);
string bodyText = (string) doc.Root.Element("body");
string fromAddress = (string) doc.Root.Attribute("from");
string toAddress = (string) doc.Root.Attribute("to");

    That will give you a value of null for any element/attribute which isn’t present. If you’re happy with a NullReferenceException instead:

    XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(HttpContext.Request.InputStream);
string bodyText = doc.Root.Element("body").Value;
string fromAddress = doc.Root.Attribute("from").Value;
string toAddress = doc.Root.Attribute("to").Value;
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