I have an XML file with a structure similar to this
<entry name="something">
<members>
<member>aaa</member>
<member>bbb</member>
</members>
</entry>
<entry name="something_else">
<members>
<member>ccc</member>
<member>ddd</member>
</members>
</entry>
I need to be able to get the values out of each of the member nodes to store in a datatable. if i use the innertext property, it concatenates the values (aaabbb). there is nothing discernible to split the string on. I can also use the inner XML but then i just get a string with the XML structure (aaa bbb<\member>)
What is the best way to get each value out of the XML elements and store it in a string array?
here is what I have been trying.
foreach (XmlNode grpNode in GrpList)
{
subNode = grpNode.Attributes["name"];
if (subNode != null)
{
Obj = grpNode.Attributes["name"].Value;
}
subNode = grpNode["members"];
if (subNode != null)
{
string innerXml = string.Empty;
innerXml = grpNode["members"].InnerXml.ToString();
string[] tempArrary = innerXml.Split(new char[] {'>', '<'});
}
}
You can use Xpath to iterate through Entry nodes and get the members within it like this
string xml = "<root><entry name='something'>" +
"<members>" +
"<member>aaa</member>" +
"<member>bbb</member>" +
"</members>" +
"</entry>" +
"<entry name='something_else'>" +
"<members>" +
"<member>ccc</member>" +
"<member>ddd</member>" +
"</members>" +
"</entry></root>";
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
var memsList = doc.SelectNodes("//entry");
foreach (XmlNode a in memsList)
{
Console.WriteLine(a.Attributes["name"].Value);
var memList = a.SelectNodes("members/member");
foreach(XmlNode x in memList)
Console.WriteLine(x.InnerText);
}
You need to iterate the child elements within members, so something like:
foreach (var node in grpNode["members"].ChildNodes)
{
var value = node.InnerText;
}
That said, you would be better off using LINQ to XML unless you have some specific reason to use XmlDocument. This gives you much more expressive code, for example:
var doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
var something = doc.Descendants("entry")
.Where(e => (string)e.Attribute("name") == "something")
.Single();
var somethingMembers = something.Descendants("member")
.Select(e => e.Value)
.ToArray();
This should do the trick:
XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(#"Path/to/file");
var result = xdoc.Descendants("member").Select (x => x.Value).ToArray();
Result:
Demo Code
the xml you've provided isn't valid. But assuming you just want the inner text of all member nodes into a string array, I'd just use Linq-To-Xml (XDocument):
var results = XDocument.Parse(xmlString)
.Descendants("member")
.Select(m => m.Value)
.ToArray();
Even though you're using the old XmlDocument API, by throwing in an .OfType<XmlNode>() you can convert an XmlNodeList to a generic enumerable and thereby mix in some linq and lambda syntax, for instance:
var tempArrary = subNode.SelectNodes("member").OfType<XmlNode>().Select(n => n.InnerText).ToArray();
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I'm using .net to parse an XML. Below is the XML that needs to be parsed. I need to gather the id from Animal and info from AnimalName, AnimalPicture and AnimalPicture type.
<AnimalEntry version="2.0">
<Animal id="1">
<Information>
<Type>
Indoor Pet
<Type>
<AvailableTypes> //always only 1 type
<AvailableType>
<Active>
<AnimalName> Rupert</AnimalName>
<AnimalPictures> //Always only 1 picture
<AnimalPicture type="jpg"> random.jpg <AnimalPicture>
</AnimalPictures>
</Active>
</AvailableType>
</AvailableTypes>
<Price>10000</Price>
</Information>
</Animal>
</AnimalEntry>
I can gather the id as follows:
XmlDocument xDoc new XmlDocument();
xDoc.Load(xmlUrl);
XmlNode node = xDoc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes[0];
string id = node.Attributes["id"].Value;
I'm not familiar on how to tackle the nested nodes. Is there a recommended way to get the nested AnimalName, AnimalPicture and OwnerId? Do I need to call a foreach or is there a way I can directly get the node?
Use linq to xml.
var xml = XElement.Load(xmlUrl);
int id = (int)xml.Element("Animal").Attribute("id");
var active = xml.Element("Animal")
.Element("Information")
.Element("AvailableTypes")
.Element("AvailableType")
.Element("Active");
var animalName = active.Element("AnimalName").Value;
var animalPictureNode = active.Element("AnimalPictures").Element("AnimalPicture");
var animalPicture = animalPictureNode.Value;
var animalPictureType = animalPictureNode.Attribute("type").Value;
Console.WriteLine(id);
Console.WriteLine(animalName);
Console.WriteLine(animalPicture);
Console.WriteLine(animalPictureType);
Open namespace:
using System.Xml.Linq;
using linq to xml, u can try something like this. If you this approach verbose, you can also try xpath using linq how-to-query-linq-to-xml-using-xpath
XElement element = XElement.Parse("Xml data");
foreach (XElement xe in element.Elements(XName.Get("Animal")))
{
string id = xe.Attribute(XName.Get("id")).Value;
var allChildrens = xe.Descendants();
string animalName = allChildrens.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "AnimalName")?.Value;
string animalPicture = allChildrens.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "AnimalPicture")?.Value;
string animalPictureType = allChildrens.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "AnimalPicture")?.Attribute(XName.Get("type"))?.Value;
}
I try to parse an xml file with XDocument class, with criteria that if the child node matches a given string, its parent node is selected.
<SalesQuotes xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://api.some.com/version/1">
<Pagination>
<NumberOfItems>2380</NumberOfItems>
<PageSize>200</PageSize>
<PageNumber>1</PageNumber>
<NumberOfPages>12</NumberOfPages>
</Pagination>
<SalesQuote>
<Guid>825634b9-28f5-4aa7-98e7-5e4a4ed6bc6a</Guid>
<LastModifiedOn>2018-01-09T12:23:56.6133445</LastModifiedOn>
<Comments>Please note:
installation is not included in this quote
</Comments>
</SalesQuote>
</SalesQuotes>
I tried using
var contents = File.ReadAllText(path: "test1.xml");
var doc = XDocument.Parse(contents);
var root = doc.Root;
var sq = root.Elements("SalesQuote");//return null
var theQuote = root.Elements("SalesQuote").Where(el => el.Element("Guid").Value == "825634b9-28f5-4aa7-98e7-5e4a4ed6bc6a");//return null
var theAlternativeQuote =
from el in doc.Descendants("SalesQuote").Elements("Guid")
where el.Value == "825634b9-28f5-4aa7-98e7-5e4a4ed6bc6a"
select el;//return null
I can't seem to find what's wrong.
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks.
You ignored the namespace bro.
Do remove the xmlns attribute in your XML or try this:
var contents = File.ReadAllText("XMLFile1.xml");
var doc = XDocument.Parse(contents);
var root = doc.Root;
XNamespace ns = "http://api.some.com/version/1";
var sq = root.Descendants(ns + "SalesQuotes"); //return null
var theQuote = root.Elements(ns + "SalesQuote")
.Where(el => el.Element(ns + "Guid").Value == "825634b9-28f5-4aa7-98e7-5e4a4ed6bc6a"); //return null
var theAlternativeQuote =
from el in doc.Descendants(ns + "SalesQuote").Elements(ns + "Guid")
where el.Value == "825634b9-28f5-4aa7-98e7-5e4a4ed6bc6a"
select el; //return null
If you are not too concerned about keeping your current implementation, you could consider using a Typed DataSet and load your XML into fully typed, structured objects.
Querying those objects with Linq will be more straight forward than what I see in your current implementation.
You might also find this useful:
SO Question: Deserialize XML Document to Objects
yap, you're missing the namespace that you can grab with document.Root.GetDefaultNamespace()
// Load
var document = XDocument.Parse(xml);
var xmlns = document.Root.GetDefaultNamespace();
// Find
var query = from element in document
.Descendants(xmlns + "SalesQuote")
.Elements(xmlns + "Guid")
where element.Value == "825634b9-28f5-4aa7-98e7-5e4a4ed6bc6a"
select element;
I am trying to figure out the code to extract xml child (I think this is worded correctly) elements. I have searched and tried many samples but cannot find how to drill down to pick out the section I want and return the information I need. Maybe I all I need is someone to define the data I am trying to pull so I can read up on the issue, of course any code would be very helpful and I will figure it out from there. Thanks in advanced for any help!
Here is the xml file. I am trying to run an if statement to find the section named <STATISTICTYPE>PVCAP_CharactersSaved</STATISTICTYPE> and return the <JOBNAME>,<TIMEDELTA>,<VALUESUM>.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PVCAPTURESTATISTICCONTAINTER xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<PVCAPTUREJOBSTATISTICS>
<PVCAPTURESTATISTICSUMMARY>
<STATISTICTYPE>PVCAP_CharactersSaved</STATISTICTYPE>
<STATISTICNAME>Characters saved</STATISTICNAME>
<JOBID>24</JOBID>
<JOBNAME>HEAT FILES</JOBNAME>
<TIMEDELTA>422</TIMEDELTA>
<VALUESUM>25432</VALUESUM>
</PVCAPTURESTATISTICSUMMARY>
<PVCAPTURESTATISTICSUMMARY>
<STATISTICTYPE>PVCAP_CharactersSaved_NoMM</STATISTICTYPE>
<STATISTICNAME>Characters saved (no match and merge)</STATISTICNAME>
<JOBID>24</JOBID>
<JOBNAME>HEAT FILES</JOBNAME>
<TIMEDELTA>422</TIMEDELTA>
<VALUESUM>25432</VALUESUM>
</PVCAPTURESTATISTICSUMMARY>
</PVCAPTUREJOBSTATISTICS>
<DOCUMENTCOUNT>762</DOCUMENTCOUNT>
<PAGECOUNT>3194</PAGECOUNT>
<IMAGECOUNT>3194</IMAGECOUNT>
<VERSION>2.0</VERSION>
</PVCAPTURESTATISTICCONTAINTER>
You can use LINQ to XML, particularly the XElement class.
var element = XElement.Parse(xmlStr).Element("PVCAPTUREJOBSTATISTICS")
.Elements("PVCAPTURESTATISTICSUMMARY")
.First(c => c.Element("STATISTICTYPE").Value == "PVCAP_CharactersSaved")
var jobName = element.Element("JOBNAME").Value;
var timeDelta = element.Element("TIMEDELTA").Value;
var valueSum = element.Element("VALUESUM").Value;
You'll want to add in some error handling and whatnot here, but this should get you going in the right direction.
You can do something like this:
XElement res = XElement.Parse(xmlResult);
foreach(var elem in res.Element("PVCAPTUREJOBSTATISTICS").Elements("PVCAPTURESTATISTICSUMMARY"))
{
if (elem.Element("STATISTICTYPE").Value.Equals("PVCAP_CharactersSaved", StringComparison.Ordinal))
{
string jobName = elem.Element("JOBNAME").Value;
string timeDelta = elem.Element("TIMEDELTA").Value;
string valueSum = elem.Element("VALUESUM").Value;
}
}
You can use XDocument and LINQ-to-XML to do that quite easily, for example :
string xml = "your xml content here";
XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
//or if you have the xml file instead :
//XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("path_to_xml_file.xml");
var result = doc.Descendants("PVCAPTURESTATISTICSUMMARY")
.Where(o => (string) o.Element("STATISTICTYPE") == "PVCAP_CharactersSaved")
.Select(o => new
{
jobname = (string) o.Element("JOBNAME"),
timedelta = (string) o.Element("TIMEDELTA"),
valuesum = (string) o.Element("VALUESUM")
});
foreach (var r in result)
{
Console.WriteLine(r);
}
I am recently working on a .net 2.0 project I have to read some xml files and replace certain elements value.
Wondering how you do it the following not using linq to xml?
IEnumerable<XElement> cities= xmldoc.Descendants("City")
.Where(x => x.Value == "London");
foreach (XElement myElem in cities)
{
myElem.ReplaceWith(new XElement("City", "NewCity"));
}
or
var xElement = xdoc.Descendants("FirstName").Where(x => x.Value == "Max").First();
xElement.ReplaceWith(new XElement("FirstName", "NewValue");
Any suggestions
You can consider using XmlDocument, like this:
string xmlFile = "<xml><data<test /><test /><test /><test /></data></xml>";
var xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(xmlFile);
var oNodes = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("//test");
foreach (var oNode in oNodes)
{
oNode.InnerText = "bla bla";
}
xmlDoc.Save("..path to xml file");
(In your case you can use InnerXml property of the document)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx
To selectNodes you should pass XPath Query, reference can be found:
http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/
Also if you XML contains namespace, you need to use XmlNamespaceManager:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnamespacemanager.aspx
Otherwise xpath won't work.
You will need to use XmlDocument and query it using XPath with SelectNodes.
It will not be as nice and succint.
I have an XML file with the following structure:
<Definitions>
<Definition Execution="Firstkey" Name="Somevalue"></Definition>
<Definition Execution="Secondkey" Name="Someothervalue"></Definition>
</Definitions>
How can I get the values of the keys (Firstkey, Secondkey) and write them down using C# in my .NET application?
Thanks.
Using Linq to XML this is straightforward.
To just get the keys:
var keys = doc.Descendants("Definition")
.Select(x => x.Attribute("Execution").Value);
foreach (string key in keys)
{
Console.WriteLine("Key = {0}", key);
}
To get all values:
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("test.xml");
var definitions = doc.Descendants("Definition")
.Select(x => new { Execution = x.Attribute("Execution").Value,
Name = x.Attribute("Name").Value });
foreach (var def in definitions)
{
Console.WriteLine("Execution = {0}, Value = {1}", def.Execution, def.Name);
}
Edit in response to comment:
I think what you really want is a dictionary, that maps from a key ("Execution") to a value ("Name"):
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("test.xml");
Dictionary<string, string> dict = doc.Descendants("Definition")
.ToDictionary(x => x.Attribute("Execution").Value,
x => x.Attribute("Name").Value);
string firstKeyValue = dict["Firstkey"]; //Somevalue
using System.Xml.Linq;
var keys = XDocument.Load("path to the XML file")
.Root
.Elements()
.Select(x => x.Attribute("Execution"));
Using XMLDocumnet/XMLNode(s):
//Load the XML document into memory
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("myXML.xml");
//get a list of the Definition nodes in the document
XmlNodeList nodes = doc.GetElementsByTagName("Definition");
//loop through each node in the XML
foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
{
//access the key attribute, since it is named Execution,
//that is what I pass as the index of the attribute to get
string key = node.Attributes["Execution"].Value;
//To select a single node, check if we have the right key
if(key == "SecondKey") //then this is the second node
{
//do stuff with it
}
}
basically you load the xml into a document variable, select the nodes you wish to view. Then iterate through them and store pertinent information.
XPath would be a great choice, I'd say.
Below is a sample XPath expression.
//Definition[#Execution='Firstkey']/#Name
As a XPath expression is a string, you can easily replace 'Firstkey' with whatever you need.
Use this with a XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode or XmlDocument.SelectNodes method
Both the above mentioned methods return an XmlNode. You can easily access the XmlNode.Value
Here are some XPath expressions
Don't forget XPath Visualizer which makes working with XPath so much easier!