I am trying to read the following file, I can read the attributes, but I can't go into the specific element (Address in this case) and read its elements based on the attribute of that (Address) element. Shortly I need to distinguish between work and home addresses. I need to do this with XMLReader class. Can you help?
<Address Label="Work">
<Name>Name1</Name>
<Street>PO 1</Street>
<City>City1</City>
<State>State 1</State>
</Address>
<Address Label="Home">
<Name>Name2</Name>
<Street>PO 2</Street>
<City>City2</City>
<State>State 2</State>
</Address>"
Okay, here are some notes to think about. XMLReader
in the sense i understand you use it (with no code example) is that you iterate over the document, since the XMLReader
is forward-only, and read-only.
Because of this you need to iterate until you find the node you need. In the example below i find the address element labeled "work" and extract that entire node. Then query on this node as you want.
using (var inFile = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open))
{
using (var reader = new XmlTextReader(inFile))
{
while (reader.Read())
{
switch (reader.NodeType)
{
case XmlNodeType.Element:
if (reader.Name == "Address" && reader.GetAttribute(0) == "Work")
{
// Create a document, which will contain the address element as the root
var doc = new XmlDocument();
// Create a reader, which only will read the substree <Address> ... until ... </Address>
doc.Load(reader.ReadSubtree());
// Use XPath to query the nodes, here the "Name" node
var name = doc.SelectSingleNode("//Address/Name");
// Print node name and the inner text of the node
Console.WriteLine("Node: {0}, Inner text: {1}", name.Name, name.InnerText);
}
break;
}
}
}
}
Edit
Made an example that not uses LINQ
XML:
<Countries>
<Country name ="ANDORRA">
<state>Andorra (general)</state>
<state>Andorra</state>
</Country>
<Country name ="United Arab Emirates">
<state>Abu Z¸aby</state>
<state>Umm al Qaywayn</state>
</Country>
Java:
public void datass(string file)
{
string file = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/CS.xml");
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
if (System.IO.File.Exists(file))
{
//Load the XML File
doc.Load(file);
}
//Get the root element
XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNodeList subroot = root.SelectNodes("Country");
for (int i = 0; i < subroot.Count; i++)
{
XmlNode elem = subroot.Item(i);
string attrVal = elem.Attributes["name"].Value;
Response.Write(attrVal);
XmlNodeList sub = elem.SelectNodes("state");
for (int j = 0; j < sub.Count; j++)
{
XmlNode elem1 = sub.Item(j);
Response.Write(elem1.InnerText);
}
}
}
Using XPath you can easily write concise expressions to navigate an XML document.
You would do something like
XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
xDoc.LoadXml(myXMLString);
XmlNode homeAddress = xDoc.SelectSingleNode("//Address[@Label='Work']");
Then do whatever you want with homeAddress
.
Read more here on w3schools on XPath.