It's a simple task, but I can't make it work. Given the following XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<product>
<item1></item1>
<item2></item2>
<item3></item3>
</product>
I'd like to get all nodes within product. Following two attempts return no nodes, I don't see why:
XDocument meteoDoc = XDocument.Load("data.xml");
foreach (var item in meteoDoc.Descendants("product")) {//...}
foreach (var item in meteoDoc.Descendants().Where(x => x.Name == "product").Nodes()) {//...}
The following, as expected, would return me all nodes:
foreach (var item in meteoDoc.DescendantNodes()) { //...}
Thx for any tipps, I can't see the problem... :-/
Your first attempt is asking for all the Descendants called product. Your second attempt is finding the direct child nodes of all descendants called product.
It's possible that it's looking for descendants within the root element... if you know that the root element is called product, you could just use:
foreach (var item in meteoDoc.Root.Descendants())
(I can't test your existing code to find out exactly why it's not working for you right now, I'm afraid.)
Note that Descendants will only find descendant elements - if you want all descendant nodes, you need the DescendantNodes method.
Use this:
XDocument meteoDoc = XDocument.Load("data.xml");
foreach (var item in meteoDoc.Root.Descendants())
{
// ...
}
Try this:
foreach (var item in meteoDoc.Descendants("product"))
{
foreach (var prod in item.Descendants())
{
// do something
}
}
I have made a few change to xml, in this way the data is more well-formed and i can give you a piece of code that accomplish your task.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Data.xml
/*
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<product>
<item>
<name>test</name>
</item>
<item>
<name>test2</name>
</item>
<item>
<name>test3</name>
</item>
</product>
*/
XDocument meteoDoc = XDocument.Load("data.xml");
var result = from c in meteoDoc.Descendants("item")
select new { Name = c.Element("name").Value };
foreach (var item in result)
{
Console.WriteLine(item.Name);
}
Related
Given this xml doc
<listOfItem>
<Item id="1">
<attribute1 type="foo"/>
<attribute2 type="bar"/>
<property type="x"/>
<property type="y"/>
<attribute3 type="z"/>
</Item>
<Item>
//... same child nodes
</Item>
//.... other Items
</listOfItems>
Given this xml document, I would like to select, for each "Item" node, just the "property" child nodes. How can I do it in c# directly? With "directly" I mean without selecting all the child nodes of Item and then check one by one. So far:
XmlNodeList nodes = xmldoc.GetElementsByTagName("Item");
foreach(XmlNode node in nodes)
{
doSomething()
foreach(XmlNode child in node.ChildNodes)
{
if(child.Name == "property")
{
doSomethingElse()
}
}
}
You can use SelectNodes(xpath) method instead of ChildNodes property:
foreach(XmlNode child in node.SelectNodes("property"))
{
doSomethingElse()
}
Demo.
Try using LINQ to XML instead of XML DOM as it's much simpler syntax for what you want to do.
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(filename);
foreach (var itemElement in doc.Element("listOfItems").Elements("Item"))
{
var properties = itemElement.Elements("property").ToList();
}
Im wondering how to select a specific element from the heirarchy so that I can format its text.
In the example below I would like to format the specific element to remove the time portion of the date, but I am also looking for a way to format any of the elements for example to add a currency symbol to the text between each price tag.
My example
<orders>
<order>
<type> tools </type> //I would like the ability to select this element
<text> screwdriver </text>
<id> 100981 </id>
<price> 5.00 </price>
<date> 01/01/15 12:51:36 </date>
</order>
<order>
<type> uniform </type>
<text> boots </text>
<id> 100546 </id>
<price> 25.00 </price>
<date> 12/01/15 15:30:41 </date>
</order>
</orders>
What I have so far
foreach (XElement element in doc.Descendants())
{
var nodes = element.Nodes().Where(p => p.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text);
foreach (XText node in nodes)
{
node.Value = FirstLetterToUpper( node.Value );// set the first letter of each output to be uppercase
}
}
What I have tried
foreach (XElement element in doc.Descendants())
{
var nodes = element.Nodes().Where(p => p.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text);
if( element.Descendants() == element.Element("date"))
{
element.Value = Convert.ToDateTime(element.Value).ToShortDateString();
}
foreach (XText node in nodes)
{
node.Value = FirstLetterToUpper( node.Value );
}
}
I have some XML experience but have never worked with XElement before.
I've been searching SO for a while now but cant find what Im looking for. The answers below are some of the suggested answers from typing this question but they dont provide a solution as the XML elements are generated dynamically in a loop.
XElement node with text node has its formatting ignored
string.Format in XElement not formatting
Any help with this would be great as I have not attempted this before. Thanks.
You can get the text node's parent using Parent property and check it's name:
foreach (XText node in doc.DescendantNodes()
.Where(x => NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text))
{
if(node.Parent.Name == "date") { ... }
if(node.Parent.Name == "price") { ... }
}
BTW, don't forget the save the document using XDocument.Save method after you made the changes.
I usually create one class to represent the xml and send yo the instance of object with correct type. for Example convert.ToDecimal(node.innerText)
I have a XDocument called currentIndex like that:
<INDEX>
<SUBINDEX>
<!-- Many tag and infos -->
<SUBINDEX>
<ITEM>
<IDITEM>1</IDITEM>
<ITEM>
<ITEM>
<IDITEM>2</IDITEM>
<ITEM>
...
<ITEM>
<IDITEM>n</IDITEM>
<ITEM>
</INDEX>
I would recreate a new XDocument similar to above one:
<INDEX>
<SUBINDEX>
<!-- Many tag and infos -->
<SUBINDEX>
<ITEM>
<IDITEM>2</IDITEM>
<ITEM>
</INDEX>
I want to do this in C#, I have tried starting in this way:
public void ParseItems(XDocument items)
{
IEnumerable<XElement> items = from a in indexGenerale.Descendants(XName.Get("ITEM"))
// where a.Element("IDITEM").Equals("2")
select a;
foreach(var item in items) {
// do something
}
}
Now the problem: If where clause is commented, items contains n elements (one for each ITEM tag), but if I remove that comments items is empty. Why this behaviour. How I need to perform a search?
Use an explicit cast:
from a in indexGenerale.Descendants("ITEM")
where (string)a.Element("IDITEM") == "2"
a.Element("IDITEM") will return an XElement and it will never be equal to "2".Maybe you meant a.Element("IDITEM").Value.Equals("2"), that will also work but explicit cast is safer.It doesn't throw exception if the element wasn't found`,
I have the following XML and query through the ID,how do get the Parent Hierarchy
<Child>
<Child1 Id="1">
<Child2 Id="2">
<Child3 Id="3">
<Child4 Id="4">
<Child5 Id="5"/>
<Child6 Id="6"/>
</Child4>
</Child3>
</Child2>
</Child1>
</Child>
In this if i query(Id = 4) and find out the Parent elements using Linq in the particular element how to get the following output with Hierarchy.
<Child>
<Child1 Id="1">
<Child2 Id="2">
<Child3 Id="3">
<Child4 Id="4"/>
</Child3>
</Child2>
</Child1>
</Child>
Thanks In Advance.
Assume you want just one node parent tree:
string xml = #"<Child>
<Child1 Id="1">
<Child2 Id="2">
<Child3 Id="3">
<Child4 Id="4">
<Child5 Id="5"/>
<Child6 Id="6"/>
</Child4>
</Child3>
</Child2>
</Child1>
</Child>";
TextReader tr = new StringReader(xml);
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(tr);
IEnumerable<XElement> myList =
from el in doc.Descendants()
where (string)el.Attribute("Id") == "4" // here whatever you want
select el;
// select your hero element in some way
XElement hero = myList.FirstOrDefault();
foreach (XElement ancestor in hero.Ancestors())
{
Console.WriteLine(ancestor.Name); // rebuild your tree in a separate document, I print ;)
}
To search for every element of your tree iterate retrieve the node with the select query without the where clause and call the foreach for every element.
Based on the sample XML provided, you could walk up the tree to find the parent node once you've found the node in question:
string xml =
#"<Child>
<Child1 Id='1'>
<Child2 Id='2'>
<Child3 Id='3'>
<Child4 Id='4'>
<Child5 Id='5'/>
<Child6 Id='6'/>
</Child4>
</Child3>
</Child2>
</Child1>
</Child>";
var doc = XDocument.Parse( xml );
// assumes there will always be an Id attribute for each node
// and there will be an Id with a value of 4
// otherwise an exception will be thrown.
XElement el = doc.Root.Descendants().First( x => x.Attribute( "Id" ).Value == "4" );
// discared all child nodes
el.RemoveNodes();
// walk up the tree to find the parent; when the
// parent is null, then the current node is the
// top most parent.
while( true )
{
if( el.Parent == null )
{
break;
}
el = el.Parent;
}
In Linq to XML there is a method called AncestorsAndSelf on XElement that
Returns a collection of elements that contain this element, and the
ancestors of this element.
But it will not transform your XML tree the way you want it.
What you want is:
For a given element, find the parent
Remove all elements from parent but the given element
Remove all elements from the given element
Something like this in Linq (no error handling):
XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse("<xml content>");
//finding element having 4 as ID for example
XElement el = doc.Descendants().First(el => el.Attribute("Id").Value == "4");
el.RemoveNodes();
XElement parent = el.Parent;
parent.RemoveNodes();
parent.Add(el);
[Edit]
doc.ToString() must give you what you want as a string.
[Edit]
Using RemoveNodes instead of RemoveAll, the last one also removes attributes.
Removing nodes from the chosen element too.
I found the following way
XElement elementNode = element.Descendants()
.FirstOrDefault(id => id.Attribute("id").Value == "4");
elementNode.RemoveNodes();
while (elementNode.Parent != null)
{
XElement lastNode = new XElement(elementNode);
elementNode = elementNode.Parent;
elementNode.RemoveNodes();
elementNode.DescendantsAndSelf().Last().AddFirst(lastNode);
}
return or Print elementNode.
I have xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<info lang="ru" xmlns:x="http://www.yandex.ru/xscript">
<region id="213" lon="37.617671" lat="55.755768" zoom="10">
<title>Москва</title>
</region>
<traffic lon="37.617671" lat="55.755768" zoom="10"region="213">
<length>489164.0</length>
<level>6</level>
<icon>yellow</icon>
<timestamp>1365162401</timestamp>
<time>15:46</time>
<url>http://maps.yandex.ru/moscow_traffic</url>
<title>Москва</title>
</traffic>
</info>
And I need to get value from "level"
public void GetText(string filename)
{
try
{
XDocument xDocument = LoadPage(filename);
if (xDocument.Root == null) return;
XElement elem = xDocument.Root.Element("info");
if (elem != null)
foreach (var el in elem.Elements("traffic"))
{
Name = el.Element("level").Value;
};
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
}
This block of code works good with another xml. It can't find "info", and elem=null. What's wrong with this code. Or how can I get this value in other way. Thanks!
This is the problem:
XElement elem = xDocument.Root.Element("info");
In the XML you've given us, xDocument.Root is the info element. Just change that to:
XElement elem = xDocument.Element("info");
and that will check that the root element really is info.
Another alternative would be:
foreach (var el in xDocument.Elements("info")
.Elements("traffic"))
That way you just won't go into the loop body if Elements(info) returns an empty collection.
EDIT: If you need it to work on documents where sometimes info is the root element and sometimes it's not, you might want to use:
foreach (var el in xDocument.Descendants("info")
.Take(1)
.Elements("traffic"))
(It's pretty odd to be in that situation though.)