Opening a file from a sharepoint library for editing

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Hello!

I ran into a problem editing an existing XML file in a sharpoint documents library..
What I want to do is search for an xml file(based on its namem), and when its found, load it into an XmlDocument so it can be edited...
this is what I got so far... When I run this code, the file/item Im searching for is found(lets say test.xml), but the problem is I dont know how to load it into the xmldocument for editing...Or am I doing this the wrong way? :P

Thank you for your answers...

C#

public XmlDocument GetXMLDocument(string name)
{
    
    XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
    SPListItemCollection items = GetList(libraryName).Items;//gets the list

    foreach (SPItem item in items)
    {
        if (item.Name == name)
            document.Load(item); //I get lost here :)
    }
    
    return document;
}

Posted 4-Jul-12 3:01am

pykos

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pykos · Answer 1 · 2012-07-05T01:11:00

Ok so I think I found a solution, dont know if its the best but for now it servs our purpose... What this does is preaty straight forward.
I open the file as a binary array wich is loaded into a stream so it can be used in xmldocument.load method, to be procesed... If there is a better way of doing it, please tell me :)

C#

public XmlDocument GetXMLDocument(string name)
{
    XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
    SPWeb site = GetSite();

    string fileUrl = _url + libraryname + "/" + name;
    SPFile temp = site.GetFile(fileUrl);
    
    byte[] table = temp.OpenBinary();
    MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(table);

    document.Load(stream);
    //clear resources
    stream.Dispose();
    return document;
}