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Trevor Daniel
Trevor Daniel

Reputation: 3974

Retrieve Values manually from XML InnerXML

I have been trying to deserialize the InnerXML into a class and for some reason the XML keeps changing shape and however many times I try to get the class right it seems to change shape again.

So I have given up and decided to try another method.

Is it possible to retrieve the value of a parameter within the InnerXML manually using c#?

Say for example, my XML innerXML looked like this:

<Timestamp>2014-08-22T21:45:00Z</Timestamp>
<Subscriber>https://www.dogdoza.co.uk</Subscriber>
<Order>
  <OrderID>111867</OrderID>
  <InvoiceNumber>DOZA-9725410</InvoiceNumber>
  <CustomerID>4542</CustomerID>

Is it possible to pull out say the value of Subscriber

If this is possible I can just pull out the values I want manually. Not ideal, but there are only about 10...

I have looked around but not managed to find any code I can get working..

Can anyone please give me any guidance?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 281

Answers (2)

Marnix
Marnix

Reputation: 6547

Try loading your XML into an XDocument. Then try to use XPathSelectElement to find the specific value you want.

It could be that you need to wrap your inner xml into a root element, because it doesn't accept multiple roots.

Pseudo example:

// set up your xml document
string xml = "<rootelement>" + myInnerXml + "</rootelement>";
XDocument doc = new XDocument();
doc.Parse(xml);

XElement subscriber = doc.XPathSelectElement("/rootelement/Subscriber");
string value = subscriber.Value;

Upvotes: 0

Yuval Itzchakov
Yuval Itzchakov

Reputation: 149588

You can do achieve what you want using LINQ to XML:

XElement myXml = XElement.Load(@"XmlLocationHere");
XElement subscriber = myXml.Descendants("Subscriber").FirstOrDefault();

XElement.Descendants returns a collection of the descendant elements for this document or element, in document order. This method will return an IEnumerable<XElement>, since there might be more than one "Subscriber" element, but in your case, we choose FirstOrDefault, which returns the first occurrence.

Upvotes: 1

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