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Parse XML with XDocument C#

Please help. How to read from xml sub tree. I have xml doc:
<data>
<Infos>
<Info>
<AddressFk>1</AddressFk>
<AddressLine1>1970</AddressLine1>
<AddressLine2>Napa Ct.</AddressLine2>
<Phone>
<dataAsString1>111111</string>
<dataAsString2>222222</string>
<dataAsString3>333333</string>
</Phone>
<City>Bothell</City>
</Info>
</Infos>
I read xml using XDocument:
XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load("1.xml");
foreach (XElement addresList in xdoc.Document.Element("data").Elements("Infos").Elements("Info"))
{
address = new Address();
address.id = (string)addresList.Element("AddressFk");
address.Line1 = (string)addresList.Element("AddressLine1");
address.Line2 = (string)addresList.Element("AddressLine2");
address.City = (string)addresList.Element("City");
}
how to get the structure <Phone> ???

Use Elements
var phones = addresList.Element("Phone").Elements("string");
foreach(var phone in phones)
{
Console.WriteLine((string)phone);
}
for the future, it is bad practice to use tag names with reserved words

Update XML Document in WPF C#

I have got problems to update a XML Document.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<test>
<settings server="1" />
</test>
For example I want to update the "1".
I tried like this:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(path);
doc.SelectSingleNode("test/settings/server").InnerText = "2"
doc.Save(path);
I think this should be easy to solve, but I am really a blockhead.
UPDATE:
I have tried your solutions and they work with the given example.
Thank you to all of you!
But in the given XML, there is a weird structure, I got problems with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<test>
<settings server="1" />
<settings config="999" />
</test>
With this structure none of your solutions work and i always get a "System.NullReferenceException" if I try to change the '999' of config.
I only can access the '1' of server.
Sorry, I didn't expected this and tried to keep the example as easy as possible.

You can do this with
var path = #"C:\users\bassie\desktop\test.xml";
var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(path);
var settings = doc.SelectSingleNode("test/settings");
settings.Attributes["server"].Value = "2";
doc.Save(path);
InnerText would be used if you wanted to update settings to read something like:
<settings server="1"> 2 </settings>
Where you are trying to update an attribute of the settings element.
Regarding your update, you can replace doc.SelectSingleNode with doc.SelectNodes like so:
var settings = doc.SelectNodes("test/settings");
This will select all the available settings elements under test.
Then when setting the attribute you just provide the index of the element you want to target, e.g.:
settings[0].Attributes["server"].Value = "2";
to update the value of server, or
settings[1].Attributes["config"].Value = "000";
to update the value of config.
However
I think your best best here would be to use System.Xml.Linq, so that you can select the correct settings element by attribute name:
var document = XDocument.Load(path);
var attributeName = "server";
var element = document.Descendants("settings")
.FirstOrDefault(el => el.Attribute(attributeName) != null);
That code gets all settings elements (Descendants) in the document, and then selects the first one where the attributeName ("server" in this case) is not null.
This of course relies on the fact that each attribute only appear once (i.e. you can't have multiple settings elements with the "server" attribute), as it uses the FirstOrDefault selector meaning it will only return 1 element.
Hope this helps

server is an attribute
var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(path);
doc.SelectSingleNode("test/settings").Attributes["server"].Value = "2"
doc.Save(path);

Try this:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(path);
XmlNode root = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNode myNode = root.SelectSingleNode("test/settings");
myNode.Attributes["server"].Value = "2";
doc.Save(path);

Or LINQ to XML
var document = XDocument.Load(path);
document.Descendants("settings").First().Attribute("server").Value = "2";
document.Save(path);

c# adding xml element where attribute equals

I have an xml file that has a bunch of channels, and I want to append a channel category to every single one of them. Depending on what channel it is. I'm very new to this so please excuse me if this is an obvious error.
example:
<channel-category>Entertainment</channel-category>
or
<channel-category>News</channel-category>
I have tried the following:
string path;
string xmlfile = "/channels.xml";
path = Environment.CurrentDirectory + xmlfile;
if (exists("channelname1"))
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(path);
XmlNode root = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNode node = root.SelectSingleNode("list/channel[#id='channelname1'");
XmlNode category = doc.CreateElement("channel-category");
category.InnerText = "channelcataegorygoeshere";
node.AppendChild(category);
doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(node);
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("not found");
}
Console.ReadKey();
}
static bool exists(string channelname)
{
string path;
string xmlfile = "/channels.xml";
path = Environment.CurrentDirectory + xmlfile;
XDocument xmlDoc = XDocument.Load(path);
bool doesexists = (from data in xmlDoc.Element("list").Elements("channel")
where (string)data.Attribute("id") == channelname
select data).Any();
return doesexists;
}
but it's giving me the following error and I can't figure it out.. What am I doing wrong?
An unhandled exception of type 'System.Xml.XPath.XPathException' occurred in System.Xml.dll
Additional information: 'list/channel[#id='channelname1'' has an invalid token.
from this line
XmlNode node = root.SelectSingleNode("list/channel[#id='channelname1'");
My XML looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<list info="list">
<channel id="channelname1">
<display-name lang="en">channelname1</display-name>
<icon src="http://locationtologo.com/" />
<url>http://someurl.com</url>
</channel>
<channel id="channelname2">
<display-name lang="en">channelname2</display-name>
<icon src="http://locationtologo.com/" />
<url>http://someurl.com</url>
</channel>
<channel id="channelname3">
<display-name lang="en">channelname3</display-name>
<icon src="http://locationtologo.com/" />
<url>http://someurl.com</url>
</channel>
<channel id="channelname4">
<display-name lang="en">channelname4</display-name>
<icon src="http://locationtologo.com/" />
<url>http://someurl.com</url>
</channel>
</list>

You dont have closing bracket in list/channel[#id='channelname1'(HERE).
Moreover, you are actually trying to do following:
var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\channels.xml");
var nodes = doc.SelectNodes("list/channel[#id=\"channelname1\"]");
if (nodes != null)
{
foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
{
var el = doc.CreateElement("channel-category");
el.InnerText = "SomeValue";
node.AppendChild(el);
}
}

bool doesexists = (from data in xmlDoc.Element("tv").Elements("channel")
where (string)data.Attribute("id") == channelname
select data).Any();
You are trying to reach the channel node where the id equals the channelname inside tv. The problem is that tv does not exist, the channels are inside this:
<list info="list">
Solution: either put the channels into tv, or use a selector appropriate to your current structure.

Why you are using tv instead of list thats why xml library not getting your path of your elements and throwing this error.
try this..
XmlNode node = root.SelectSingleNode("list/channel");
node.Attributes["id"].Value=="channelname1"?true:false;

Select last XML node

I have this XML code:
<AriaGostarInformation>
<MenuInformation>
<MenuNames Name="0" href="default.aspx">home</MenuNames>
<SubMenuNames parentName="1">
fgfgfgfgs
</SubMenuNames>
<SubMenuNames parentName="3">
</SubMenuNames>
</MenuInformation>
<SliderInformation>
<SliderImageAddress>..\..\Img\Hydrangeas.jpg,</SliderImageAddress>
<SliderImageAddress>..\..\Img\Jellyfish.jpg,</SliderImageAddress>
<SliderImageAddress>..\..\Img\Koala.jpg,</SliderImageAddress>
<SliderImageAddress>..\..\Img\Lighthouse.jpg,</SliderImageAddress>
<SliderImageAddress>..\..\Img\Penguins.jpg,</SliderImageAddress>
<SliderImageAddress>..\..\Img\Tulips.jpg,</SliderImageAddress>
</SliderInformation>
<LastProductInformation>
<Product Name="147">
<Subject>
</Subject>
<ProductImageAddress>http://localhost:1209/ckeditor/plugins/imagebrowser/browser/Hydrangeas.jpg</ProductImageAddress>
<ProductDes>
<p><span style="color:#FFA07A;">qwqweqweqe</span>qwe</p>
<p><span style="font-size:11px;">qweqweqw</span>e</p>
</ProductDes>
</Product>
<Product Name="dsa">
<Subject>salm</Subject>
<ProductImageAddress>http://localhost:1209/ckeditor/plugins/imagebrowser/browser/Hydrangeas.jpg</ProductImageAddress>
<ProductDes>
<p>sdADASDASDASDASDASDASD</p>
<p>ASDASDASDADASDASDASDASDA</p>
<p>ASDASDASDASDASDASDASDASDASD</p>
</ProductDes>
</Product>
</LastProductInformation>
</AriaGostarInformation>
I want select last product node in LastProductInformation and get this node's attribute.
My code is:
XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument();
xdoc.Load(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + #"\static\css\xml\data.xml");
XmlNode xparent = xdoc.SelectSingleNode("//LastProductInformation");
var b = xparent.SelectSingleNode("/Product[last()]").Attributes["Name"].Value;
but this returns null. What should I do?

Using LINQ to XML
var value = XDocument.Load("path")
.Descendants("Product")
.Last()
.Attribute("Name").Value;
Also you can use XPath with LINQ to XML
var value = XDocument.Load("path")
.XPathSelectElement("//LastProductInformation/Product[last()]")
.Attribute("Name").Value;
Note: Make sure you have a reference to System.Xml.Linq namespace from your project.

You don't have to change to linq.
var b = xparent.SelectSingleNode("//Product")[last()].Attributes["Name"].Value;
The last() works like an index so should be at the end.

Inserting XML Fragment after last specific node/element

I want to add an XML fragment to the last element to an XML document and I having problems i.e. the error I get is:
"The reference node is not a child of
this node".
So my existing XML document looks like this:
<MAP>
<LAYER name ="My first Layer">
<DATASET name="foo dataset" />
<SYMBOLOGY>
<SYMBOL colour="red" />
</SYMBOLOGY>
</LAYER>
<LAYER name="My second Layer">
<DATASET name="bar dataset" />
<SYMBOLOGY>
<SYMBOL colour="blue" />
</SYMBOLOGY>
</LAYER>
</MAP>
The XML fragment I want to insert after the last LAYER element is:
<LAYER name="My third Layer">
<DATASET name="whatever dataset" />
<SYMBOLOGY>
<SYMBOL colour="yellow" />
</SYMBOLOGY>
</LAYER>
The code I am using is:
XmlDocumentFragment xmlDocFrag = xmlDocument.CreateDocumentFragment();
xmlDocFrag.InnerXml = inputXML; //which is basically the third layer example - see above.
XmlElement rootElement = xmlDocument.DocumentElement;
XmlNode lastLayerNode = rootElement.SelectSingleNode(#"//LAYER[last()]");
rootElement.InsertAfter(xmlDocFrag, lastLayerNode); //error raised here.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here would be much appreciated. My XPath query seems find and it seems to select the correct last layer it just won't insert after it for some bizarre reason.
UPDATE/SOLUTION - How to do this with XPATH
Finally figured it out in XPath - see the code below, I think it was down to basically not selecting the correct parent node in the first place, it's incorrect to select the last LAYER then try and InsertAfter() on this node. Better to select the level above i.e. MAP then AppendChild(). See below:
XmlDocumentFragment xmlDocFrag = xmlDocument.CreateDocumentFragment();
xmlDocFrag.InnerXml = inputXML;
XmlElement mapElement = (XmlElement)xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode(#"//MAP[last()]");
mapElement.AppendChild(xmlDocFrag);
Thanks to all the replies and help too :)

Taking into consideration that you need this to work with Framework 2.0, here's another solution:
string xml = "<map><layer>1</layer><layer>2</layer></map>";
string addMe = "<layer>3</layer>";
XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
xmlDocument.LoadXml(xml);
XmlDocumentFragment xmlDocFrag = xmlDocument.CreateDocumentFragment();
xmlDocFrag.InnerXml = addMe;
XmlElement rootElement = xmlDocument.DocumentElement;
rootElement.AppendChild(xmlDocFrag);
This results in:
<map><layer>1</layer><layer>2</layer><layer>3</layer></map>

Things look pretty good, but I would first try to avoid the xpath selection for the last node, and instead just use this:
rootElement.InsertAfter(xmlDocFrag, rootElement.LastChild);

I had similar issue, I used the ImportNode method to solve it
Here is a small example how you can use it to add node from different xml (stored in string) to your example at desired node in xml tree
string xmlstring =#"<tag>.....</tag>"; // holds xml tree to be appended
XmlDocument xml2 = new XmlDocument();
xml2.Load(#"path_of_main_xml");
XmlDocument xml1 = new XmlDocument();
xml1.Load(new StringReader(xmlString));
// get the node you want to import which in this icase is string
XmlNode elem = xml1.DocumentElement;
// use importNode to import it
XmlNode impnode = xml2.ImportNode(elem,true);
// get the node list of all node of particular tag name
XmlNodeList eNode = xml2.GetElementsByTagName("tag_name_of_parent");
eNode[0].AppendChild(impnode); // append new node
// write back the updates to same file
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(#"path_of_main_xml");
xml2.Save(writer);