parse xml file to c# text file

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Hello. I am new to c#. I am trying to parse elements of a xml file to the text boxes in c#.
can any one help me on how to go for this?

Posted 5-Sep-13 14:32pm

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Ron Beyer · Answer 1 · 2013-09-05T14:48:00

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How to read/parse XML with the XmlReader in C#[^]

Using the XmlReader class with C#[^]

Posted 5-Sep-13 14:48pm

Ron Beyer

Updated 5-Sep-13 14:50pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Sep-13 22:35pm

That's correct and useful, my 5, but why only this way? There are others which may be beneficial, depending on the task. Please see my answer.
—SA

Ron Beyer 5-Sep-13 22:38pm

The "I'm new to C#" part is why I highlighted this one, XmlDocument and XDocument with Linq are more advanced features, the XmlReader is pretty easy to use. +5'd on yours too for pointing out the other ones.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Sep-13 22:42pm

Thank you, Ron.

If you want to take into account little experience, XmlDocument is apparently the easiest. And XmlReader is relatively tricky. I relatively recently created a whole technology using it in implementation (and this is the replacement of Microsoft Data Contract, pretty advanced stuff using Reflection.Emit), so I know how tricky it is. It's only good for best performance.

—SA

Ron Beyer 5-Sep-13 22:43pm

Maybe I use it too much, I find it easier than XmlDocument :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Sep-13 22:57pm

Maybe... :-)
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2013-09-05T16:34:00

You can use at least three different ways of parsing offered by .NET FCL. Here is my short overview of them:

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[^].

Good luck,

—SA