How to remove parent tag from XML using c#

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<MainParents>
      <Parent>
        <Child 1>Something</Child 1>
        <Child 2>Something</Child 2>
        <Child 3>Something</Child 3>
        <Child 4>Something</Child 4>
      </Parent>
</MainParents>

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i would like to remove only the "Parent" tag not its content tags in this XML can you any body help me ...
finally i need output like . . .

XML

<MainParents>
    <Child 1>Something</Child 1>
    <Child 2>Something</Child 2>
    <Child 3>Something</Child 3>
    <Child 4>Something</Child 4>
 </MainParents>

Posted 24-Jun-12 23:40pm

sachinsac11

Updated 12-Jul-18 2:59am

bhagirathimfs

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Tejas Vaishnav · Answer 1 · 2012-06-24T23:54:00

Solution 1

you can try like this..

1) read the <parent> tag and copy all child node using inner xml
2) now go to the root node that is MainParents
3) now replace the inner xml string with your xml string which is read in first step.

i think it will solve your problem.

but i can't under stand why you need this. you can directly access the child node by steping on the Parent tag.

Posted 24-Jun-12 23:54pm

Tejas Vaishnav

v2

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[no name] 25-Jun-12 9:10am

Thanks to your replay , main parent is having 8 different sub parent that individual parent contains more than 10k children's , it will take more time to copy the children's and again write it . . . Is there any way to search this <Parent> </Parent> tags and replace with ""(empty string). . . or any other way . . .

Shail Mishra · Answer 2 · 2018-07-12T02:59:00

Solution 2

try this..

foreach (XmlNode chkNode in nodes)
{                
    string currentName = "Test 1";
    if (!nameDict.ContainsKey(currentName))
    {
        XmlNode parent = chkNode.ParentNode;
        parent.ParentNode.RemoveChild(parent);
    }
}

Posted 12-Jul-18 2:59am

Shail Mishra