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How Can I Parse an XML file using XmlNodeList

I have been tasked with taking one XML file and converting it to a new XML I have no experience working with XML documents but I have been able to get some of the data from the first XML document using the code shown below. Note not all code is being shown just a small example.
XmlDocument rssXmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
// Load the RSS file from the RSS URL
rssXmlDoc.Load("https://agency.governmentjobs.com/jobfeed.cfm?agency=ocso");
// Setup name space
XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(rssXmlDoc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("joblisting", "http://www.neogov.com/namespaces/JobListing");
// Parse the Items in the RSS file
XmlNodeList rssNodes = rssXmlDoc.SelectNodes("rss/channel/item/");
// Iterate through the items in the RSS file
foreach (XmlNode rssNode in rssNodes)
{
XmlNode rssSubNode = rssNode.SelectSingleNode("title");
string title = rssSubNode != null ? rssSubNode.InnerText : "";
using this code I am able to get most of the elements. I have run into a wall when trying to get data from a child element. The portion of the XML I cannot get is shown below.
<joblisting:department>Supply</joblisting:department>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/ocso/Jobs/2594527</guid>
<joblisting:categories>
<joblisting:category xmlns:joblisting="http://www.neogov.com/namespaces/JobListing" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<CategoryCode>ClericalDataEntry</CategoryCode>
<Category>Clerical & Data Entry</Category>
</joblisting:category>
<joblisting:category
</joblisting:categories>
But I cannot get all of the data. How can I get the value for the element that starts with guid isPermaLink="true"
For the joblisting:categories I have used a foreach loop to read those values
foreach (var item in rssSubNode.SelectNodes("joblisting:categories", nsmgr))
{
rssSubNode = rssSubNode = rssNode.SelectSingleNode("joblisting:category", nsmgr);
string category = rssSubNode != null ? rssSubNode.InnerText : "";
}
How can read the values of those child elements?

To read guid node you can use the follow code. note that use selectSingleNode in node contains the "item" node.
public static void test() {
XmlDocument rssXmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
// Load the RSS file from the RSS URL
rssXmlDoc.Load("https://agency.governmentjobs.com/jobfeed.cfm?agency=ocso");
// Setup name space
XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(rssXmlDoc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("joblisting", "http://www.neogov.com/namespaces/JobListing");
// Parse the Items in the RSS file
XmlNodeList rssNodes = rssXmlDoc.SelectNodes("rss/channel/item");
// Iterate through the items in the RSS file
foreach (XmlNode rssNode in rssNodes) {
var xmlnode = rssNode.SelectSingleNode("guid ");
System.Console.WriteLine("the value of guid is =>" + xmlnode.InnerText);
XmlNode rssSubNode = rssNode.SelectSingleNode("title");
string title = rssSubNode != null ? rssSubNode.InnerText : "";
}
}

Need to select Data from XML file C#

What I'm trying to do is get data from my XML file which has been merged with two others and selected each venue from that file and try to add the value to a list so I can manipulate it further.
This is one of my XML files
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Funrun>
<Venue name="Roker Park">
<Runner charity="Cancer Research">
<Firstname>Roger</Firstname>
<Lastname>Malibu</Lastname>
<Sponsorship>550</Sponsorship>
</Runner>
<Runner charity="Arthritis UK">
<Firstname>Adam</Firstname>
<Lastname>White</Lastname>
<Sponsorship>340</Sponsorship>
</Runner>
</Venue>
</Funrun >
I need to be able to select the venue name and save it to a list. This is what I've got so far:
List<string> VenueNames = new List<string>();
var doc = XDocument.Load("XMLFile1.xml");
var doc2 = XDocument.Load("XMLFile2.xml");
var doc3 = XDocument.Load("XMLFile3.xml");
var combinedUnique = doc.Descendants("Venue")
.Union(doc2.Descendants("Venue"))
.Union(doc3.Descendants("Venue"));
foreach (var venuename in combinedUnique.Elements("Venue"))
{
VenueNames.Add(venuename.Attribute("name").Value));
}

The easiest way I would do it is by including Name and Charity within the XElements they belong to.
What I would recommend you do is first reformat your document so that it looks like this:
<Funrun>
<Venue>
<Name>Roker Park</Name>
<Runner1>
<charity>Cancer Research</charity>
<Firstname>Roger</Firstname>
<Lastname>Malibu</Lastname>
<Sponsorship>550</Sponsorship>
</Runner1>
<Runner2>
<charity>Arthritis UK</charity>
<Firstname>Adam</Firstname>
<Lastname>White</Lastname>
<Sponsorship>340</Sponsorship>
</Runner2>
</Venue>
</Funrun >
Note that you could get even simpler by combining all the elements under "Funrun" (example: "Venue") and just iterate through all of them without having to switch documents.
Next moving over to C#:
List<string> VenueNames = new List<string>();
var doc = XDocument.Load("XMLFile1.xml");
var doc2 = XDocument.Load("XMLFile2.xml");
var doc3 = XDocument.Load("XMLFile3.xml");
foreach (XElement element in doc.Root.Descendants("Venue"))
{
VenueNames.Add(element.Element("Name").Value.ToString());
}
//Copy paste this code for each document you would like to search through, though of course change "doc" to say, "doc2".
So just real quick, what this code will do is it will first open the Root element in the XDocument. It will find Decendants of that element with the name, "Name", and for each of those it will copy its value as a string into your list.

List<string> xmlFilePaths = new List<string>
{
#"Path\\SomeJson.txt",
#"Path\\SomeJson1.txt"
};
var venues = xmlFilePaths.Select(fp => XDocument.Load(fp).Descendants("Venue")?.FirstOrDefault()?.Attribute("name")?.Value).Distinct().ToList();

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:

XDocument does not load Xml string properly

I'm trying to do the following: load an Xml string into a XDocument object, but when I try to access elements through Descendants method it return nothing when I tried to see the value of inner elements in Visual Studio it does not recognize it as Xml so what is the problem here?
string xml = #"<ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringint xmlns=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"" xmlns:i=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"">
<KeyValueOfstringint>
<Key>crscmprsn_ttlprt1</Key>
<Value>1</Value>
</KeyValueOfstringint>
<KeyValueOfstringint>
<Key>ptntmntrfrm_ttlprt1</Key>
<Value>1</Value>
</KeyValueOfstringint>
</ArrayOfKeyValueOfstringint>";
var xdoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
IEnumerable<XElement> elements = xdoc.Descendants("KeyValueOfstringint");
var lst = new List<KeyValuePair<string,int>>();
foreach (var item in elements)
{
var k = item.Element("Key").Value;
int v = int.Parse(item.Element("Value").Value);
var kvp = new KeyValuePair<string,int>(k,v);
lst.Add(kvp);
}

You need to specify namespace to get your elements:
var ns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays";
var elements = xdoc.Descendants(ns + "KeyValueOfstringint");
For more information about xml namespaces take a look at: Working with XML Namespaces

Get XmlNodeList if a particular element value or its attribute value is present in a given list of strings

I would like to get XmlNodeList from a huge XML file.
Conditions:
I have a List of unique ID values, say IDList
Case I: Collect all the nodes where element called ID has value from IDList.
Case II: Collect all nodes where one of the attribute called idName of element ID has value from IDList.
In short, extract only the nodes which match with the values given in the IDList.
I did this using some loops like load this XML to XmlDocument to iterate over all nodes and ID value but what I am looking for is some sophisticated method to do it faster and in quick way.
Because looping isn't a solution for a large XML file.
My try:
try
{
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(URL))
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(reader);
XmlNodeList nodeList = doc.GetElementsByTagName("idgroup");
foreach (XmlNode xn in nodeList)
{
string id = xn.Attributes["id"].Value;
string value = string.Empty;
if (IDList.Contains(id))
{
value = xn.ChildNodes[1].ChildNodes[1].InnerText; // <value>
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
{
listValueCollection.Add(value);
}
}
}
}
}
catch
{}
XML (XLIFF) structure:
<XLIFF>
<xliff xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.2">
<file date="2013-07-17">
<body>
<id idName="test_001" >
<desc-group name="test_001">
<desc type="text"/>
</desc-group>
<result-unit idName="test_001_text">
<source>abcd</source>
<result>xyz</result>
</result-unit>
</id>
</body>
</file>
</xliff>
Collect all the nodes like above where idName matches.

EDIT
This is a test that can parse the example you are giving. It attempts to reach the result node directly, so that it stays as efficient as possible.
[Test]
public void TestXPathExpression()
{
var idList = new List<string> { "test_001" };
var resultsList = new List<string>();
// Replace with appropriate method to open your URL.
using (var reader = new XmlTextReader(File.OpenRead("fixtures\\XLIFF_sample_01.xlf")))
{
var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(reader);
var root = doc.DocumentElement;
// This is necessary, since your example is namespaced.
var nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("x", "urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2");
// Go directly to the node from which you want the result to come from.
foreach (var nodes in idList
.Select(id => root.SelectNodes("//x:file/x:body/x:id[#idName='" + id + "']/x:result-unit/x:result", nsmgr))
.Where(nodes => nodes != null && nodes.Count > 0))
resultsList.AddRange(nodes.Cast<XmlNode>().Select(node => node.InnerText));
}
// Print the resulting list.
resultsList.ForEach(Console.WriteLine);
}
You can extract only those nodes you need by using an XPath query. A brief example on how you 'd go about it:
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(URL))
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(reader);
foreach(var id in IDList) {
var nodes = doc.SelectNodes("//xliff/file/body/id[#idName='" + id + "']");
foreach(var node in nodes.Where(x => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(x.ChildNodes[1].ChildNodes[1].InnerText)))
listValueCollection.Add(node.ChildNodes[1].ChildNodes[1].InnerText);
}
}
The xpath expression is of course an example. If you want, you can post an example of your XML so I can give you something more accurate.