Problem parsing xml file in VB.NET

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Hi,

I am new to VB.NET and xml and I am trying to parse the xml file of format mentioned below and display it using textbox in VB.NET. But I am not able to parse it. Can anybody pls give me a code snippet to parse the xml shown below :

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Table>
  <Product>
    <Product_id value="1"/>
    <Product_name value="Product 1"/>
    <Product_price value="1000"/>
  </Product>
  <Product>
    <Product_id value="2"/>
    <Product_name value="Product 2"/>
    <Product_price value="5000"/>
  </Product>
</Table>

Posted 6-Nov-11 23:15pm

Gani_2

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Wayne Gaylard · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-07T00:53:00

With VB.Net you can use XML literals[^] to parse XML files. For your example you just need to do something like this:-

VB

Class Form1

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        'can use XDocument.Load(fileName) to load from file
        Dim xDoc As XDocument = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
                                <Table>
                                    <Product>
                                        <Product_id value="1"/>
                                        <Product_name value="Product 1"/>
                                        <Product_price value="1000"/>
                                    </Product>
                                    <Product>
                                        <Product_id value="2"/>
                                        <Product_name value="Product 2"/>
                                        <Product_price value="5000"/>
                                    </Product>
                                </Table>
        Dim productList As New List(Of Product)
        For Each product In From element In xDoc...<Product>
            Dim selectdProduct As New Product
            selectdProduct.ProductID = Convert.ToInt32(product...<Product_id>.@value)
            selectdProduct.ProductName = product...<Product_name>.@value
            selectdProduct.ProductPrice = Convert.ToDecimal(product...<Product_price>.@value)
            productList.Add(selectdProduct)
        Next

    End Sub
End Class

Class Product

    Public ProductID As Integer
    Public ProductName As String
    Public ProductPrice As Decimal

End Class

Hope this helps