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Possible Duplicate: Amazon Marketplace XML parsing I am new to parsing XML in C#

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Amazon Marketplace XML parsing

I am new to parsing XML in C# and I have some data from Amazon MWS library that is displayed below. I need to parse out various ItemAttributes such as ItemDimensions. I am use to JSON responses so I am not sure how to apply this to XML. Would it be possible from someone to point me in the right direction? I have Googled XML Parsing with C# but not valuable results were found to help me complete my tasks.

<GetMatchingProductResponse xmlns="http://mws.amazonservices.com/schema/Products/2011-10-01">
<GetMatchingProductResult ASIN="1430225491" status="Success">
  <Product>
    <Identifiers>
      <MarketplaceASIN>
        <MarketplaceId>ATVPDKIKX0DER</MarketplaceId>
        <ASIN>1430225491</ASIN>
      </MarketplaceASIN>
    </Identifiers>
    <AttributeSets>
      <ns2:ItemAttributes xml:lang="en-US">
        <ns2:Author>Troelsen, Andrew</ns2:Author>
        <ns2:Binding>Paperback</ns2:Binding>
        <ns2:Brand>Apress</ns2:Brand>
        <ns2:Edition>5</ns2:Edition>
        <ns2:ItemDimensions>
          <ns2:Height Units="inches">9.21</ns2:Height>
          <ns2:Length Units="inches">7.48</ns2:Length>
          <ns2:Width Units="inches">2.52</ns2:Width>
          <ns2:Weight Units="pounds">5.80</ns2:Weight>
        </ns2:ItemDimensions>
        <ns2:IsAutographed>false</ns2:IsAutographed>
        <ns2:IsEligibleForTradeIn>true</ns2:IsEligibleForTradeIn>
        <ns2:IsMemorabilia>false</ns2:IsMemorabilia>
        <ns2:Label>Apress</ns2:Label>
        <ns2:Languages>
          <ns2:Language>
            <ns2:Name>english</ns2:Name>
            <ns2:Type>Unknown</ns2:Type>
          </ns2:Language>
          <ns2:Language>
            <ns2:Name>english</ns2:Name>
            <ns2:Type>Original Language</ns2:Type>
          </ns2:Language>
          <ns2:Language>
            <ns2:Name>english</ns2:Name>
            <ns2:Type>Published</ns2:Type>
          </ns2:Language>
        </ns2:Languages>
        <ns2:ListPrice>
          <ns2:Amount>59.99</ns2:Amount>
          <ns2:CurrencyCode>USD</ns2:CurrencyCode>
        </ns2:ListPrice>
        <ns2:Manufacturer>Apress</ns2:Manufacturer>
        <ns2:NumberOfItems>1</ns2:NumberOfItems>
        <ns2:NumberOfPages>1752</ns2:NumberOfPages>
        <ns2:PackageDimensions>
          <ns2:Height Units="inches">2.60</ns2:Height>
          <ns2:Length Units="inches">9.20</ns2:Length>
          <ns2:Width Units="inches">7.50</ns2:Width>
          <ns2:Weight Units="pounds">5.80</ns2:Weight>
        </ns2:PackageDimensions>
        <ns2:PartNumber>9781430225492</ns2:PartNumber>
        <ns2:ProductGroup>Book</ns2:ProductGroup>
        <ns2:ProductTypeName>ABIS_BOOK</ns2:ProductTypeName>
        <ns2:PublicationDate>2010-05-14</ns2:PublicationDate>
        <ns2:Publisher>Apress</ns2:Publisher>
        <ns2:SmallImage>
          <ns2:URL>http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h9Sju5NKL._SL75_.jpg</ns2:URL>
          <ns2:Height Units="pixels">75</ns2:Height>
          <ns2:Width Units="pixels">61</ns2:Width>
        </ns2:SmallImage>
        <ns2:Studio>Apress</ns2:Studio>
        <ns2:Title>Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform</ns2:Title>
      </ns2:ItemAttributes>
    </AttributeSets>
    <Relationships/>
    <SalesRankings>
      <SalesRank>
        <ProductCategoryId>book_display_on_website</ProductCategoryId>
        <Rank>43011</Rank>
      </SalesRank>
      <SalesRank>
        <ProductCategoryId>697342</ProductCategoryId>
        <Rank>36</Rank>
      </SalesRank>
      <SalesRank>
        <ProductCategoryId>3967</ProductCategoryId>
        <Rank>53</Rank>
      </SalesRank>
      <SalesRank>
        <ProductCategoryId>4013</ProductCategoryId>
        <Rank>83</Rank>
      </SalesRank>
    </SalesRankings>
  </Product>
</GetMatchingProductResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
  <RequestId>440cdde0-fa76-4c48-bdd1-d51a3b467823</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</GetMatchingProductResponse>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I find “Linq To Xml” easier to use

    var xDoc = XDocument.Parse(xml); //or XDocument.Load(filename);
XNamespace ns = "http://mws.amazonservices.com/schema/Products/2011-10-01";
var items = xDoc.Descendants(ns + "ItemAttributes")
                .Select(x => new
                {
                    Author = x.Element(ns + "Author").Value,
                    Brand = x.Element(ns + "Brand").Value,
                    Dimesions = x.Element(ns+"ItemDimensions").Descendants()
                                 .Select(dim=>new{
                                     Type = dim.Name.LocalName,
                                     Unit = dim.Attribute("Units").Value,
                                     Value = dim.Value
                                 })
                                .ToList()

                })
                .ToList();
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