XDocument Implementation

Question

I'm trying to best understand how to implement the following XML as an XDocument, but I'm rather new to the XDocument stuff and I'm running into a conceptual problem of how to get around the multi-attribute in an Element with a value nested inside another Element.

The below is a sample of the XML -- any help would be appreciated

<LVNPImport xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <InterfaceIdentifier>835</InterfaceIdentifier>
    <FolderPaths>
        <Folder fromDate="" toDate="" contactName="APerson" email="AnEmail">Remittance Advice</Folder>
        <Folder>%FACILITY%</Folder>
        <Folder>%PAYORID%</Folder>
        <Folder>%REMITDATE YYYY%</Folder>
        <Folder>%REMITDATE MMMM YYYY%</Folder>
    </FolderPaths>
    <DocumentType>RA</DocumentType>
    <DocumentDescription>%REMITDATE MM-DD-YY%</DocumentDescription>
    <TotalFiles>1</TotalFiles>
</LVNPImport>

EDIT

The above is a template -- I'm not reading in, I'm writing out so I need to create the above as an XDoc.

I'm just getting into the XDocument stuff and what I have is pretty much what you can find with most examples on Stack.

Answer 1

For anyone looking at this, between the help I've gotten on this answer from @ReinderWit as well as the answer from another question (see the other comments in the question) I was able to figure out how to build up the XDocument.

The code follows:

            _folderviewContents =
            new XDocument(
                new XElement("InterfaceIdentifier", "835"),
                //Start of FolderPaths 
                new XElement("FolderPaths",
                    new XElement("Folder",
                        new XAttribute("fromDate", String.Empty),
                        //attributes for Folder w/ lots of attributes
                        new XAttribute("toDate", String.Empty),
                        new XAttribute("contactName", "APerson"),
                        new XAttribute("email", "AnEmail"),
                        //value for that long Folder w/ lots of attributes
                        "Remittance Advice"),
            //Facility
                    new XElement("Folder", String.Empty),
            //PayorID
                    new XElement("Folder", String.Empty),
            //RemitDate Year
                    new XElement("Folder", String.Empty),
            //RemitDate Month/Year
                    new XElement("Folder", String.Empty)),
            new XElement("DocumentType", "RA"),
            new XElement("DocumentDescription",String.Empty),
            new XElement("TotalFiles", "1"));

I still need to add the XML version and the Namespace, but those seem simple enough to do. Hopefully this helps others in the future with building XDocs that are a bit weird and not-so-straightforward.

Answer 2

You can pass multiple attributes inside the new XElement overload, as the objects content:

XElement folderPath = new XElement("FolderPaths");
folderPath.Add(
    new XElement(
        "Folder", 
        new XAttribute("fromDate", String.Empty), 
        new XAttribute("toDate", String.Empty), 
        new XAttribute("contactName", "APerson"), 
        new XAttribute("email", "AnEmail"), 
        "Remittance Advice"
    )
);