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Retrieve element values from xml

I have the following code:
XmlDocument doc = //A ton of code that generates the document"
XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNodeList nodes = root.SelectNodes("ElementINeed");
string ElementINeedValue;
foreach(XmlElement node in nodes)
{
ElementINeedValue = node.Value;
}
When I debug the code, node.Value > innerText holds the correct information I'm trying to get from the XML document. Problem is I can't save it, ElementINeedValue remains null

Display single value Of FirstChild Elements in XML

Please, Help me Out Here
I Want to display the value of "email" from xml. my syntax works for now but it displays every value. i want to be able to display Individual (one) Values like
email: mail#mail.com
My scripts
var xml ="<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<MemResponse>
<Phone>2554535</Phone>
<Email>mail#mail</Email>
<Number>we75546654</Number>
</MemResponse>";
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
foreach(XmlNode n in doc.DocumentElement)
{
string q = n.FirstChild.InnerText;
Response.Write(q);
}

Simply you can select all element by tag name by GetElementsByTagName method.
Check this :
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
var myEmails = doc.GetElementsByTagName("Email");
foreach (XmlNode mail in myEmails)
{
string mailText = mail.FirstChild.InnerText;
Response.Write(mailText);
}
I have got it from MSDN

Your code goes through each node and writes the contents of that node.
It seems like you want to match on the node name, and only write the value if its name is "email".
If thats the case, inside of your for each, try something like:
if(n.Name == "Email") {
string q = n.FirstChild.InnerText;
Response.Write(q);
}
Alternatively, you could just use a node list.
NodeList nl = doc.GetElementsByTagName("Email");
And write that.
When loading your XML Doc, use :
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(requestUrl) as HttpWebRequest;
HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(response.GetResponseStream());

Please try this code:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml("YOUR_XML_PATH");
XmlNodeList email_hd= doc.GetElementsByTagName("Email");
string email=email_hd[0].InnerText;

Reading XML nodes causing issues

I have one XML string, I am trying to read that using C#, but I am not getting child nodes. I am getting entire XML as inner XML string. I am not able to read the nodes. Here is my XML string and my code.
<Filters FilterName="706337_test">
<MemberName>Dorvil</MemberName>
<MemberId />
<ProviderName />
<ProviderId>706337</ProviderId>
<SelectedProjects>5030003</SelectedProjects>
<CNAChartSelected>false</CNAChartSelected>
<OldProject>false</OldProject>
</Filters>
C# code trying to read the XML nodes
XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.LoadXml(xmlstring);
XmlNodeList xnList = xml.SelectNodes("/Filters");
I can see only one child node that too filters, I need to read MemberId, MemberName etc., how to read them?

This is because your string in SelectNodes is wrong:
var xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.LoadXml(xmlstring);
var xnList1 = xml.SelectNodes("/Filters"); //list of 1 element
var xnList2 = xml.SelectNodes("/Filters/*"); //list of 7 elements
foreach (XmlNode node in xnList2)
{
Console.WriteLine(node.OuterXml);
}
Also you can use this:
var xElements = XElement.Parse(xmlstring).Elements();
foreach (var element in xElements)
{
Console.WriteLine(element);
}

You need to tell the app which nodes to read..
XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.LoadXml(xmlstring);
XmlNodeList xnList = xml.SelectNodes("/Filters");
foreach (XmlNode node in xnList)
{
string memberName = node["MemberName"].InnerText;
}
This lets the app know to read what is inside the MemberName node.. Do the same for the other nodes and post back your results. Debug as you go to see what you are getting out of each node.

Trouble reading iTunes XML feed

I am trying to read an XML feed from http://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topsongs/limit=10/genre=2/xml.
I want to access the fields like this:
<im:price amount="1.29000" currency="USD">$1.29</im:price>
<im:releaseDate label="December 31, 1960">1960-12-31T16:00:00-07:00</im:releaseDate>
Here is what I have done so far:
var xml = "http://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topsongs/limit=10/genre=2/xml";
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(xml);
XmlNodeList items = doc.SelectNodes("//entry");
foreach (var item in items) {
// Do something with item.
}
No luck, though. items is null. Why? What am I doing wrong?

You need to create a namespace manager to map the RSS and also the iTunes custom tags namespace URIs to short prefixes (itunes and im in the example below):
var xml = "http://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topsongs/limit=10/genre=2/xml";
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(xml);
var namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("itunes", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom");
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("im", "http://itunes.apple.com/rss");
XmlNodeList items = doc.SelectNodes("//itunes:entry", namespaceManager);
foreach (XmlNode item in items)
{
var price = item.SelectSingleNode("im:price", namespaceManager);
var releaseDate = item.SelectSingleNode("im:releaseDate", namespaceManager);
if (price != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(price.Attributes["amount"].InnerText);
}
if (releaseDate != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(releaseDate.Attributes["label"].InnerText);
}
}
For that specific feed you should get 10 entries.
It's in the docs as well:
If the XPath expression does not include a prefix, it is assumed that
the namespace URI is the empty namespace. If your XML includes a
default namespace, you must still use the XmlNamespaceManager and add
a prefix and namespace URI to it; otherwise, you will not get any
nodes selected. For more information, see Select Nodes Using XPath
Navigation.
Alternatively you can use a namespace-agnostic XPath (from here):
XmlNodeList items = doc.SelectNodes("//*[local-name() = 'entry']");
Finally, not sure why you said items is null. It cannot be. When running your original code you should get this:

Get partial data of XML file

I have this xml file which contains information from tagchimp, but the file contains way to much information. How do i only load the information i need. I have found some code:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(path);
XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNodeList nodes = root.SelectNodes("movie");
foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
{
string date = node["tagChimpID"].InnerText;
string name = node["locked"].InnerText;
Console.WriteLine("Id:" + date + " Locked:" + name);
}
but it only loads the elements not the child elements, some for example movieTitle or shortDescription
I found a way:
public static string Test(string path, XmlElement nodes)
{
string Name = "";
string releaseDate = "";
XmlNodeList xnList = nodes.SelectNodes("/items/movie");
XmlNode eNode;
foreach (XmlNode xn in xnList)
{
eNode = xn.SelectSingleNode("movieTags/info/movieTitle");
if (eNode != null)
{
Name = eNode.InnerText;
}
eNode= xn.SelectSingleNode("movieTags/info/releaseDate");
releaseDate = eNode.InnerText;
}
but it's not the most practical way to come by it.

Since you are using .NET, you might spend some time learning LINQ to XML, since it sounds like it would do what you want.
There is a lot of online documentation, in particular how to do various basic queries to get information from specific nodes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb943906.aspx
You could also get the same results with XPath.
Or you could manually traverse the nodes, although you would have to handle the child nodes properly (as you already discovered).