Question

I’ve the following XML, which I’d like to parse in my C# code. However, I don’t have any idea how this should be done.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<results>
  <fields>
    <field>COLUMN_NAME_1</field>
    <field>COLUMN_NAME_2</field>
    <field>COLUMN_NAME_3</field>
    <field>COLUMN_NAME_4</field>
  </fields>
  <rows>
    <row>
      <col>value_for_column_1</col>
      <col>value_for_column_2</col>
      <col>value_for_column_3</col>
      <col>value_for_column_4</col>
    </row>
    <row>
      <col>value_for_column_1</col>
      <col>value_for_column_2</col>
      <col>value_for_column_3</col>
      <col>value_for_column_4</col>
    </row>
    ...
  </rows>
</results>

This is just an example, because I can’t provide real data. The structure of XML looks exactly the same. “COLUMN_NAME_” and “value_for_column_” are represented by a string. I’d be very thankful if you could help me.

Answer 1

First, create a xml document obect. Then get the root node, then access your custom nodes.

    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.Load(fileName);
    XmlNode root = doc.DocumentElement;
    XmlNode s = root.SelectSingleNode('/' + rootName + '/' + section);