Question

This is a sample (edited slightly, but you get the idea) of my XML file:

<HostCollection>   <ApplicationInfo />   <Hosts>     <Host>       <Name>Test</Name>       <IP>192.168.1.1</IP>     </Host>     <Host>       <Name>Test</Name>       <IP>192.168.1.2</IP>     </Host>   </Hosts> </HostCollection> 

When my application (VB.NET app) loads, I want to loop through the list of hosts and their attributes and add them to a collection. I was hoping I could use the XPathNodeIterator for this. The examples I found online seemed a little muddied, and I’m hoping someone here can clear things up a bit.

Answer 1

You could load them into an XmlDocument and use an XPath statement to fill a NodeList…

Dim doc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument() doc.Load('hosts.xml') Dim nodeList as XmlNodeList nodeList = doc.SelectNodes('/HostCollectionInfo/Hosts/Host') 

Then loop through the nodes