how to loop through xml saved in as string varibale and get the data from the node?

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I have created a form which have two text boxes. txtName and txtJob.
What i did is whenever user enter Name and job in respective boxes,
those Name and Job got saved as xml like this

XML

<!--Name job Configuration-->
<NameJobConfig>
  <Name>NameFromTextBox</Name>
  <job>JobFromTextBox </job>
</NameJobConfig>

i saved this xml as string in a string variable msgText.

now i want to loop through the 'msgText' and find out NameFromTextBox
and JobFromTextBox and display in the respective textboxes.

How do i do it?

Posted 19-Jan-16 11:30am

gaurav.s23

Updated 20-Jan-16 5:08am

PIEBALDconsult

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PIEBALDconsult 19-Jan-16 17:40pm

Don't loop; load the text into an XmlDocument (or similar) and use XPath.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.loadxml(v%3Dvs.110).aspx

_Asif_ 20-Jan-16 0:29am

This is the solution!

[no name] 20-Jan-16 0:44am

any idea. I have updated the situation again

_Asif_ 20-Jan-16 0:56am

Its pretty easy, check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8299069/using-xpath-to-parse-an-xml-document

PIEBALDconsult 19-Jan-16 18:04pm

What's with all those apostrophes?

[no name] 19-Jan-16 22:06pm

because of angular bracket

_Asif_ 20-Jan-16 0:29am

Why are you using XML in the first place if all you have to do is get the values of text boxes?

Sinisa Hajnal 21-Jan-16 2:55am

Why saving to string instead of XmlDocument?! If you absolutely have to have string variable, you can still load it to XmlDocument and use it for searching.

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gaurav.s23 · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-23T06:51:00

C#

XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Parse(xmlData);  

var jobList = (from rec in xdoc.Descendants("NameJobConfig")  
select new  
{  
      Name = rec.Element("Name").Value,  
      Job = rec.Element("job").Value  
}).SingleOrDefault();  

txtName.Text = Convert.ToString(jobList.Name);  
txtJob.Text = Convert.ToString(jobList.Job);

I already got it. Thank you guys for help. I dont know how to close this and accept the solution