How to generate a parent & child relation xml file using data table

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Hi,

I have table with parent and child relation. programmatically (using for each loop) in C# how to create a Parent and child relation (tree view type) xml file using the below table.

Table - FolderTable

ID FolderName ParentID
1 1.0 ParentRoot 0
2 1.1 Hardware 1
3 1.2 Software 1
4 2.0 VS 0
5 2.1 VS2014 4
6 2.1.1 FrameWork 5
7 2.1.2 WCF 5
8 2.2 DATA CTR 4
9 2.2.1 Schema 8
10 2.2.2 ToolBox 8
11 2.3 Training 4
12 2.3.1 ASP.NET 11
13 2.3.2 C# 11

using above table, i need the below xml

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<product id="1.0 ParentRoot" >
  <product id="1.1 Hardware" />
  <product id="1.2 Software" />
</product>

<product id="2.0 VS" >
  <product id="2.1 VS2014 ">
      <product id="2.1.1 FrameWork" />
      <product id="2.1.2 WCF" />
    </product>

  <product id="2.2   DATA CTR" >
      <product id="2.2.1 Schema" />
      <product id="2.2.2 ToolBox" />
  </product>
  <product id="2.3   Training" >
      <product id="2.3.1 ASP.NET" />
      <product id="2.3.2 C#" />
  </product>
 </product>

Posted 9-May-14 4:05am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-May-14 11:19am

Not clear. XML file is already a parent-child relationship. You can only talk about a different form of presentation of it. What should it be? Why it seems to be a problem? You did not even specify language, platform... nothing.
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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2014-05-09T05:29:00

I see the xml file as follow:

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Products>
<Product id=1>
    <ID>1.0</ID>
    <FolderName>ParentRoot</FolderName>
    <ParentID>0</ParentID>
</Product>
<Product id=2>
    <ID>1.1</ID>
    <FolderName>Hardware</FolderName>
    <ParentID>1</ParentID>
</Product>
<!-- and so on...-->

</Products>