Saving to a Specific XML Element

[MISdad]

I need to be able to save uploaded file names to a specific XML Element. Here's where I am...

My XML File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<photoalbum>
  <album albumname="PhotoAlbum1" id="1">
    <image id="1" imagename="pic1.jpg" />
    <image id="2" imagename="pic2.jpg" />
    <image id="3" imagename="pic3.jpg" />
  </album>
  <album albumname="PhotoAlbum2" id="2">
    <image id="1" imagename="pic1.jpg" />
    <image id="2" imagename="pic2.jpg" />
    <image id="3" imagename="pic3.jpg" />
  </album>
</photoalbum>

I can currently insert images but they are all going under the first album. I need to be able to specify which album the new images get put into based on a text box entry.

I have the following C# code which adds the new image...

Xelement newElement =
new XElement("image",
new XAttribute("imagename", uploadedFileName.ToString()));

parentElement.Element("album").Add(newElement);
rootElement.Save(filename);

What I need to know is how to specify the correct albumname attribute (ie. PhotoAlbum1 or PhotoAlbum2) along with the album Element that newElement is being added to.

 

[KDavie]

select the element using xpath... W3C schools has a good reference/tutorial... using the XML you provided above, your code will look something like this (if you wanted to select the first album)....

System.Xml.XmlNode node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/photoalbum/album[@albumname='PhotoAlbum1']");

Hope this helps.