How to access attribute values, which are now in an xml string format..

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There is a table in which one column is in the form of an xml string,and this string contain another 5 column values.here the xml string is like child table of the first one..i want to access the attribute values in this xml string for checking a search criteria..Tell me please how can i access attributes..Please give me an example code to implement that..
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swathi.

Posted 21-Jan-13 17:37pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-01-21T17:45:00

This is my short overview of different XML parsing methods you can use:

Use System.Xml.XmlDocument class. It implements DOM interface; this way is the easiest and good enough if the size if the document is not too big.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx[^].
Use the class System.Xml.XmlTextReader; this is the fastest way of reading, especially is you need to skip some data.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlreader.aspx[^].
Use the class System.Xml.Linq.XDocument; this is the most adequate way similar to that of XmlDocument, supporting LINQ to XML Programming.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx[^], http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387063.aspx[^].

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likui0623 · Answer 2 · 2013-01-21T21:46:00

C#

string str = "your xml string";
XDocument document = XDocument.Parse(str);
var books = document.Descendants("book");
foreach (XElement item in books)
{
    var idElement = item.Element("id");
    if (idElement.HasAttributes)
    {
        XAttribute attr = idElement.Attribute("isPrimaryKey");
        string attrValue = attr.Value;
        Console.WriteLine(attrValue);
    }
}
Console.Read();

XML:

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<books>
<book>
	<id isPrimaryKey="true">3785</id>
        <name>CLR via C#</name>
</book>
</books>

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