Question

    XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader("D://project_elysian//data.xml");

    while (reader.Read())
    {
        if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
        {
            reader.Read();
            //Response.Write(reader.Value + "</br>");
            //Response.Write(reader.Depth);

            switch (reader.Name)
            {
                case "Id": Response.Write(reader.Value + "</br>");
                    break;
                case "Name": Response.Write(reader.Value + "</br>");
                    break;       
            }
        }    
    }

I am trying to read data.xml file and display its contents of the specified tags, but the resultant page remains blank, and no compilation error is given, am stuck, can’t figure out what is wrong with this code.

Answer 1

Since it is working outside switch, I guess than name of the node is of different case.Check the case of the nodes

Edit:

You are calling reader.read() twice and the reader.value will not return proper value for an element.

If you still want to use xmlreader check the below code

XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(<XML Path>)
    while (reader.Read())     
    {         if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)      
             {      
                switch (reader.Name)           
                {
                    case "Id": Response.Write(Server.HtmlEncode(reader.ReadString()) + "</br>");        
                        break;
                    case "Name": Response.Write(Server.HtmlEncode(reader.ReadString()) + "</br>");                 
                        break;          
                }      
            }

    }

    reader.Close();