Question

What do you suggest to use for parsing such as this XML file:

<file>
  <test1 a="true">
    <line1>aaa</line1>
    <line2>aaa</line2>
    <line3>aaa</line3>
    <line4>aaa</line4>
  </test1>
  <test2 a="true">
    <line1>aaa</line1>
    <line2>aaa</line2>
    <line3>aaa</line3>
    <line4>aaa</line4>
  </test2>
  <test3 a="false">
    <line1>aaa</line1>
    <line2>aaa</line2>
    <line3>aaa</line3>
    <line4>aaa</line4>
  </test3>
</file>

• XmlReader
• XmlTextReader
• something another?

I’m looking for the fastest and shortest way. I tried with XmlReader but it needs to much extra variables to check which element is parasing currently.

Thanks in advance.
C.H.

–update 1–
The work which i want to do is assigning each element of tests to struct “test”

Answer 1

Look in to Linq to XML. I can’t speak to ‘fastest’, but it certainly makes my life easier when working with XML.