Parse XML string 2

[jby1]

Hi

I have what looks like a simple enough request.

I have a string in C#, which contains some XML.

I wish to parse out this XML string.

How can I do this in C#?

The string is something like:

string str = "<tag1>Tag 1 Value</tag1><tag2> Tag 2 Value</tag2>";

 

[bobisto]

You need to create xsd schema for xml string. Then instance a new dataset and execute his two methods ReadXmlSchema and ReadXml. By the way your xml string is incomplete. tag1 and tag2 must be enclosed in some element like:
<tags>
<tag1>Tag 1 Value</tag1>
<tag2> Tag 2 Value</tag2>
</tags>

 

[jby1]

Hi

Thank you for you reply.

While I take your points about the form of the XML (I am pretty inexperienced in this area!), I don't think that the methods that you have suggested are doing to work for me. The ReadXml() method seems to require that I read the XML from a file or stream, I already have the XML in a string in C#, and want to parse it from there.

Any suggestions on the best approach here?

Thanks

 

[SgtPeppa]

Use the XMLDocument

Like this:

using System.Xml;

string test ="<root><node1>test</node1><node2>test2</node2>";

XmlDocument myDom = new XmlDocument();
myDom.Load(test);
string node1 = myDom.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("//node1").InnerText.ToString();


That should get you started. If you want to know more you should read up on xml and c#. It has some very nifty features.

Just do a search on google, it should give you plenty of good links.

Regards,
Stephan

 

[jby1]

Thanks again!

I have decided to use a different approach for now, although when I get the time I recognise that it is worthwhile learning this stuff properly.

As for searching Google, there is almost too much stuff, very hard to find what I actually want!

Thanks for your help though.

 

[SgtPeppa]

As for searching Google, there is almost too much stuff, very hard to find what I actually want!

I know what you are talking about!

 

[bobisto]

ReadXml have many overloads but the one you need is :
ReadXml(StreamReader)
here is an examble:
ds.ReadXml(new StringReader(strVariable));

 

[jby1]

Thank you!

I will give you a star for your wisdom