I am trying to delete one record from the XML based on some attribute value. My XML structure is given below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Users>
<User>
<UserId>12345</UserId>
<FirstName>abcd</FirstName>
<LastName>efgh</LastName>
<Email>Hello#hello.com</Email>
<IsAdmin>No</IsAdmin>
</User>
<User>
<UserId>67890</UserId>
<FirstName>ijklm</FirstName>
<LastName>nopqr</LastName>
<Email>world#world.com</Email>
<IsAdmin>No</IsAdmin>
</User>
<User>
<UserId>12678</UserId>
<FirstName>stuv</FirstName>
<LastName>wxyz</LastName>
<Email>foo#bar.com</Email>
<IsAdmin>Yes</IsAdmin>
</User>
</Users>
E.g if attribute value is 12345 it should delete the below record from the XML.
<User>
<UserId>12345</UserId>
<FirstName>abcd</FirstName>
<LastName>efgh</LastName>
<Email>Hello#hello.com</Email>
<IsAdmin>No</IsAdmin>
</User>
I tried below code but I am not able to delete anything from the XML.
string path = Server.MapPath("~/XML/users.xml");
XElement xEle = XElement.Load(path);
var qry = from element in xEle.Descendants()
where (string)element.Attribute("UserId").Value == "12345"
select element;
if (qry.Count() > 0)
qry.First().Remove();
xEle.Save(path);
I am unable to figure this out. Any help with be appreciated. Thank you
<UserId>12345</UserId> is a nested sub-element of <User>, not an attribute. See XML attribute vs XML element to see the difference.
Thus you need to do:
var userId = "12345";
var qry = from element in xEle.Descendants("User")
where (string)element.Element("UserId") == userId
select element;
var first = qry.FirstOrDefault();
if (first != null)
first.Remove();
Incidentally, by calling both Count() and First(), you are evaluating your query twice. FirstOrDefault() returns the first matching element, or null if the enumerable is empty, and is thus more efficient.
UserId is not attribute in the XML. Its an element
XElement xEle = XElement.Load("input.xml");
var qry = from element in xEle.Descendants()
where (string)element.Element("UserId") == "12345"
select element;
if (qry.Count() > 0)
qry.First().Remove();
xEle.Save("input.xml");
And in your snippet you are comparing 12345 int with string type
Related
I have the following XML sample.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GlobalResponses>
<Filters>
<FilterId>11</FilterId>
<FilterId>5</FilterId>
<FilterId>10</FilterId>
</Filters>
<Responses>
<Response>
<Name>Bob</Name>
</Response>
<Response>
<Name>Jim</Name>
</Response>
<Response>
<Name>Steve</Name>
</Response>
</Responses>
</GlobalResponses>
Using XDocument, how can I get only the <Responses> parent and also child nodes, and convert them to a string variable. I looked at XDocument Elements and Descendants, but by calling oXDocument.Descendants("Responses").ToString(); didn't work.
Do I have to iterate over all of the XElements checking each one and then appending to a string variable ?
Function Descendants returns enumeration of XElement, so you need to select specific element.
If you want to get XML element with all the child nodes, you can use:
// assuming that you only have one tag Responses.
oXDocument.Descendants("Responses").First().ToString();
The result is
<Responses>
<Response>
<Name>Bob</Name>
</Response>
<Response>
<Name>Jim</Name>
</Response>
<Response>
<Name>Steve</Name>
</Response>
</Responses>
If you want to get child nodes and concatenate them to single string you can use
// Extract list of names
var names = doc.Descendants("Responses").Elements("Response").Select(x => x.Value);
// concatenate
var result = string.Join(", ", names);
The result is Bob, Jim, Steve
The Descendants() method takes input the element name and it will return you a collection of nodes and from those you then further need to get the elements you are interested in.
You can use linq with XDocument to extract the information. For example, the following code with extract the Name element value from each Response node and prints out :
var nodes = from response in Doc.Descendants("Response")
select response.Element("Name").Value;
foreach(var node in nodes)
Console.WriteLine(node);
Here above Doc.Descendants("Response") will fetch all the <Response> elements and then we are using response.Element("Name") to fetch the <Element> tag for each <Response> element and then using .Value property we get the value between the tag.
See this working DEMO fiddle.
I have below a xml file with the below format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Root>
<Countries>
<country>India</country>
<country>USA</country>
<country>UK</country>
</Countries>
</Root>
string newCountry="UAE"
I want to insert this "UAE" country to the above xml file, before that I want to check whether "UAE" is already exists in the xml. If not exists then only want to insert otherwise no operation. How can I do this?
Like this:
XDocument xml = XDocument.Load("path_to_file");
string newCountry = "UAE";
XElement countries = xml.Descendants("Countries").First();
XElement el = countries.Elements().FirstOrDefault(x => x.Value == newCountry);
if (el == null)
{
el = new XElement("country");
el.Value = newCountry;
countries.Add(el);
}
//Console.WriteLine(countries.ToString());
The easiest way would probably be to read the xml into C# objects, check for the existance of UAE, potentially add it, and write the objects back to XML.
Ihave a large xml file and I want to get child element value by giving the parent child element value, I am new in xml file please any help here is my xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<masterController> <uuid>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</uuid>
<channels>
<channel>
<nodeGroups>
<nodeGroup>
<analogNode>
<typeCode>8</typeCode>
<id>1</id>
<sdos>
<sdo>
<description>Host ID</description>
<compareLevel>Ignore</compareLevel>
<datafield xmlns:xsi="http://www.XXXXX.XXXX/XXXXX/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:type="intField">
<description>Host ID</description>
<compareLevel>Ignore</compareLevel>
<offset>2</offset>
<size>1</size>
<readonly>true</readonly>
<isMappedToPdo>false</isMappedToPdo>
<ownerNodeSerial>12102904</ownerNodeSerial>
<ownerSdoIndex>3</ownerSdoIndex>
<data xsi:type="intData">
<value xmlns:xs="http://www.XX.CC/2XXX/XMLSchema" xsi:type="xs:int">2</value>
<unit></unit>
<min>1</min>
<max>15</max>
</data>
<intValue>2</intValue>
</datafield>
<index>3</index>
<totalbytes>3</totalbytes>
</sdo>
<sdo>
<description>Host ID</description>
<compareLevel>Ignore</compareLevel>
<datafield xmlns:xsi="http://www.XXXXX.XXXX/XXXXX/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:type="intField">
<description>Host ID</description>
<compareLevel>Ignore</compareLevel>
<offset>2</offset>
<size>1</size>
<readonly>true</readonly>
<isMappedToPdo>false</isMappedToPdo>
<ownerNodeSerial>12102905</ownerNodeSerial>
<ownerSdoIndex>4</ownerSdoIndex>
<data xsi:type="intData">
<value xmlns:xs="http://www.XX.CC/2XXX/XMLSchema" xsi:type="xs:int">16</value>
<unit></unit>
<min>1</min>
<max>15</max>
</data>
<intValue>2</intValue>
</datafield>
<index>3</index>
<totalbytes>3</totalbytes>
</sdo>
</sdos>
</analogNode>
</nodeGroup>
</nodeGroups>
</channel> </channels> </masterController>
I' am trying this but am not geting anything:
XElement root = XElement.Load(Server.MapPath("sample.xml"));
IEnumerable<XElement> masterco = from el in root.Elements("sdo") where (from add in el.Elements("datafield")
where
(string)add.Element("ownerNodeSerial") == TextBox1.Text &&
(string)add.Element("ownerSdoIndex") == TextBox1.Text
select add)
.Any()
select el;
foreach (XElement el in masterco)
{
TextBox3.Text = (string)el.Element("value");
}
I want to get this:
<value xmlns:xs="http://www.XX.CC/2XXX/XMLSchema" xsi:type="xs:int">16</value>
and be able to update it.
There is one major error in your query:
You are using Elements on root, but you are looking for the tag sdo which is not a direct child of the root tag. You have to use Descendants instead.
Additionally, I think you want to have an OR instead of an AND regarding the text of TextBox1.
Fix it:
var masterco = from el in root.Descendants("sdo")
where (from add in el.Elements("datafield")
where
(string)add.Element("ownerNodeSerial") == TextBox1.Text ||
(string)add.Element("ownerSdoIndex") == TextBox1.Text
select add).Any()
select el;
To actually get the value you want, you should use a different query. There is really no need to select the sdo tag at all.
var value = root.Descendants("datafield")
.Where(x => (string)x.Element("ownerNodeSerial") == TextBox1.Text ||
(string)x.Element("ownerSdoIndex") == TextBox1.Text)
.Select(x => (string)x.Element("data").Element("value"))
.Single();
TextBox3.Text = value;
You can see that I am assuming that in the whole XML document only one matching datafield/data/value entry exists. I derive that information from the way you update your textbox. This would make no sense if there would be multiple tags - the values would overwrite each other in the text box.
Here is my XML :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Selection>
<ID>1</ID>
<Nom>Name 1</Nom>
<DateReference>0</DateReference>
<PrefixeMedia>Department</PrefixeMedia>
<FormatExport>1630</FormatExport>
<TraceAuto>Oui</TraceAuto>
<SubID></SubID>
</Selection>
<Selection>
<ID>2</ID>
<Nom>Name 1</Nom>
<DateReference>0</DateReference>
<PrefixeMedia>Department</PrefixeMedia>
<FormatExport>1630</FormatExport>
<TraceAuto>1</TraceAuto>
<SubID>1</SubID>
</Selection>
My problem is I would like to modify for example the node content of <Nom>Name 1</Nom> which is located in <Selection></Selection> which have <ID>1</ID> (Search by ID)
I'm using XElement and XDocument to do simple search but I need some help to solve this problem above. (Developpment on SilverLight
Best Regards.
Another way to do this is using XmlDocument:
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(#"\path\to\file.xml");
// Select the <nom> node under the <Selection> node which has <ID> of '1'
XmlNode name = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/Selection[ID='1']/Nom");
// Modify the value of the node
name.InnerText = "New Name 1";
// Save the XML document
xmlDoc.Save(#"\path\to\file.xml");
If you don't know how to get at the correct <Nom> node to update, the trick is to first select a <Selection> node that contains the correct <ID> node, then you can get that <Nom> node.
Something like:
XElement tree = <your XML>;
XElement selection = tree.Descendants("Selection")
.Where(n => n.Descendants("ID").First().Value == "1") // search for <ID>1</ID>
.FirstOrDefault();
if (selection != null)
{
XElement nom = selection.Descendants("Nom").First();
nom.Value = "Name one";
}
Note 1: By using Descendants("ID").First() I expect every Selection node to contain an ID node.
Note 2: And every Selection node contains a Nom node
Note 3: Now you still have to store the whole XML, if that's what you need.
I have the following XML structure:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xml>
<root>
<Item>
<taxids>
<string>330</string>
<string>374</string>
<string>723</string>
<string>1087</string>
<string>1118</string>
<string>1121</string>
</taxids>
</Item>
</root>
</xml>
I need to get all the string nodes from the xml file to a string variable, like this:
var query = from ip in doc.XPathSelectElements("xml/root/Item")
where ip.XPathSelectElement("taxid").Value == "723"
select ip.XPathSelectElements("taxids").ToString();
But I am getting the following in one row of the variable query:
"System.Xml.XPath.XPathEvaluator+<EvaluateIterator>d__0`1[System.Xml.Linq.XElement]"
I want to get a string like this:
<taxids><string>330</string><string>374</string><string>723</string><string>1087</string><string>1118</string><string>1121</string></taxids>
Is this possible?
Thanks!
I would suggest you something like:
var values = from ids in doc.XPathSelectElements("/xml/root/Item/taxids")
from id in ids.XPathSelectElements("string")
where id.Value.Contains("723")
select ids.ToString();
var result = string.Join("", values);
The value variable will contain all the taxids, which have at least one string child with value 723.
Another variant, which doesn't use XPath for the children checking:
var values = from ids in doc.XPathSelectElements("/xml/root/Item/taxids")
from id in ids.Elements("string")
where id.Value.Contains("723")
select ids.ToString();
var result = string.Join("\n", values);
var doc = XDocument.Parse(#"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>
<xml>
<root>
<Item>
<taxids>
<string>330</string>
<string>374</string>
<string>723</string>
<string>1087</string>
<string>1118</string>
<string>1121</string>
</taxids>
</Item>
</root>
</xml>");
var query = doc.XPathSelectElement("xml/root/Item/taxids");
Console.WriteLine(query);