how to retrieve xml attribute value in c#

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hi,all

does anyone know how to retrieve xml attribute value in c#.

XML

- <Site>
- <Properties>
  <Property id="site.version" value="1.0" />
  <Property id="movex.version" value="10.0" />
  <Property id="webservice.date.format" value="yyyyMMdd" />
  <Property id="display.format" value="dd-MM-yy" />
  </Properties>

Take a look at the xml file above, how can i retrieve the property value where

id == movex.version. I would rather not using index , i prefer to get the movex.version value

from selecting where id=movex.version or something

any help would be really appreciated

thanks

Posted 18-Jun-13 15:12pm

codingStar

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-13 21:20pm

What is the question, "does anyone know"? Very nice. Many know. Is it helpful?
—SA

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2013-06-18T15:15:00

Solution 1

You can use the XmlDocument[^]class and XPath[^] to find values, or you can use Linq to XML[^].

Posted 18-Jun-13 15:15pm

Christian Graus

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codingStar 18-Jun-13 21:18pm

hi,christian, i know the general idea but just can't know exactly how to achieve this since it got many value and id. And I don't want to use the index to get the value.

can you provide me some code example to achieve this

thanks

Christian Graus 18-Jun-13 21:19pm

Read the links I gave you. Linq to XML creates class instances with named attributes. XPath lets you look up attributes by name.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2013-06-18T15:22:00

There are different ways of XML parsing provided in .NET FCL. This 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[^].

—SA