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Using XPath in a C# XmlDocument

Posted by: [email protected] Posted on: March 12, 2019 , ,

Source: https://csharp.net-tutorials.com/xml/using-xpath-with-the-xmldocument-class/

Doing a basic query return a single node (XmlNode):

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;

namespace ParsingXml
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
            xmlDoc.Load("http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss");
            XmlNode titleNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//rss/channel/title");
            if(titleNode != null)
                Console.WriteLine(titleNode.InnerText);
            Console.ReadKey();   
        }
    }
}

Doing query that returns a list of node (XMlNodeList):

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;

namespace ParsingXml
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
            xmlDoc.Load("http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss");
            XmlNodeList itemNodes = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("//rss/channel/item");
            foreach(XmlNode itemNode in itemNodes)
            {
                XmlNode titleNode = itemNode.SelectSingleNode("title");
                XmlNode dateNode = itemNode.SelectSingleNode("pubDate");
                if((titleNode != null) && (dateNode != null))
                    Console.WriteLine(dateNode.InnerText + ": " + titleNode.InnerText);
            }
            Console.ReadKey();   
        }
    }
}

.NET Make an XML Document from Scratch

Posted by: [email protected] Posted on: March 4, 2019 , ,

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11492705/how-to-create-an-xml-document-using-xmldocument

#region Using Statements
using System;
using System.Xml;
#endregion 

class Program {
    static void Main( string[ ] args ) {
        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument( );

        //(1) the xml declaration is recommended, but not mandatory
        XmlDeclaration xmlDeclaration = doc.CreateXmlDeclaration( "1.0", "UTF-8", null );
        XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
        doc.InsertBefore( xmlDeclaration, root );

        //(2) string.Empty makes cleaner code
        XmlElement element1 = doc.CreateElement( string.Empty, "body", string.Empty );
        doc.AppendChild( element1 );

        XmlElement element2 = doc.CreateElement( string.Empty, "level1", string.Empty );
        element1.AppendChild( element2 );

        XmlElement element3 = doc.CreateElement( string.Empty, "level2", string.Empty );
        XmlText text1 = doc.CreateTextNode( "text" );
        element3.AppendChild( text1 );
        element2.AppendChild( element3 );

        XmlElement element4 = doc.CreateElement( string.Empty, "level2", string.Empty );
        XmlText text2 = doc.CreateTextNode( "other text" );
        element4.AppendChild( text2 );
        element2.AppendChild( element4 );

        doc.Save( "D:\\document.xml" );
    }
}