Question

Ok, here’s my basic XML structure:

 <device
    name="abc"
    source1="True"
    source2="True"
    ...
    source19="False"
    source20="False" />

I need to search the file for the device matching a specific name, and then loop through all all it’s attributes. All of them that are true will have a user friendly string based on the option # added to a list box. I can figure out the first part but not the looping, it doesn’t seem to be something commonly done.

Answer 1

I think this should work

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("your XML");
var device = doc.Descendants("device").Select(item => item).Where(
                        item => item.Attribute("name").Value.ToString().Equals("some name")).FirstOrDefault();

if(null != device)
{
    var items = device.Attributes().Select(item => item).Where(item =>  item.Value == "True");
    if(null != items)
    {
        //you can also customize name according to your needs here
        yourListBox.AddRange(items.Select( item => item.Name.ToString() ).ToList());
    }
}