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C#: Read XML Attribute using XmlDocument

In C# if I were to have the XMLDocument containing:

<Hello>
<Person:"Alan" Saying:"My name is Alan">
</Hello>

Then how might I obtain the single attribute “Saying”? I’ve found code which works when a single attribute is contained within the “<>” however it does not appear to work where there are multiple attributes inside as is above.

Any help would be much appreciated, I’m rather a C# novice 🙂

Answer 1

First off, that is not valid xml. I think you want something like

<Hello>
    <Person name="Alan" Saying="My name is Alan" />
</Hello>

and the simplest way to get Alan’s Saying is

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("filename.xml");
string saying = doc.SelectSingleNode("//Person[@name=Alan]").Attributes["saying"].Value;

for a more detailed explanation of why that works, see XPath Examples