Read a specific node from XML

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Hi,

I have an xml file like this:

XML

<document>
    <Clients>
        <Client>
            <ClientDetails>
                <clientName>John</clientName>
            </ClientDetails>
            <properties>

                <Property>
                    <id>199</id>
                    <Address>
                        <street>1st Street</street>
                    </Address>
                    <Price>
                        <price>10000</price>
                    </Price>
                </Property>

                <Property>
                    <id>200</id>
                    <Address>
                        <street>2st Street</street>
                    </Address>
                    <Price>
                        <price>20000</price>
                    </Price>
                </Property>

            </properties>
        </Client>
    </Clients>
</document>

I would like to list all the IDs in a listView. I made this and it works.

When I double click one of the ID I would like to show its details in several textboxes (for example). So I would have a textbox of street info, another textbox with price info, etc.

This is how I did the first listing:

C#

DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.ReadXml(@"http://myUrl.com/Default.xml");
ListViewItem item;
foreach(DataRow dr in ds.Tables["Property"].Rows)
    {
        item = new ListViewItem(new string[]
        {
            dr["id"].ToString(),
        });
        listView1.Items.Add(item);
    }

I couldn't find any online solution for this kind of xml search.

Many thanks for your help.

UPDATE:

I managed to list every info from a childnode by selecting one ID in listview. But this way I get the result as one string:

C#

private void listView1_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    string propertyid = listView1.SelectedItems[0].Text;
    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.Load(@"http://myUrl.com/Default.xml");
    XmlNode nodes = doc.SelectSingleNode("document/Clients/Client/properties/Property[id[text()='" + propertyid + "']]");

    foreach(XmlNode node in nodes)
    {
        textBox1.Text += node.InnerText + "\r\n";
    }

}

Still would like to separate the results into several strings... :(

Posted 15-Sep-15 4:22am

DoomMaker79

Updated 15-Sep-15 4:58am

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F-ES Sitecore 15-Sep-15 11:27am

Use doc.SelectNodes rather than SelectSingleNode. That will return a NodeList you can iterate through.

DoomMaker79 16-Sep-15 2:03am

thanks for your reply. please check my solution and tell me what you think please.

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DoomMaker79 · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-15T19:28:00

Thank you F-ES Sitecore, you gave me the right direction. This is may almost-done-solution:

private void listView1_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
   string propertyid = listView1.SelectedItems[0].Text;
   XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
   doc.Load(@"http://myUrl.com/Default.xml");

   XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes("document/Clients/Client/properties/Property");

   foreach(XmlNode node in nodes)
   {
      if(node.SelectSingleNode("id").InnerText == propertyid)
      {
           XmlNodeList addresses = node.SelectNodes("Address");
           foreach (XmlNode address in addresses)
           {
                streetBox.Text = address.SelectSingleNode("street").InnerText;
           }

           XmlNodeList prices = node.SelectNodes("Price");
           foreach(XmlNode price in prices)
           {
                priceBox.Text = price.SelectSingleNode("price").InnerText;
           }
       }
   }
}

My only problem is, that this solution is quite slow... I guess it is because of those foreach-es and the long XML source.

Do you have any suggestion how to optimize this code part?

Sorry for my stupid questions, but I'm really new to C#. Am I right with this pairing:

XmlNodeList class -> should use SelectNodes
XmlNode class -> should use SelectSingleNode

?

Thank you