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Canox
Canox

Reputation: 559

Add attribute and string to XML File in c#

I looked around the internet but I can't find a solution for my problem, although I guess this should be very simple.

I have a XML document. There two nodes that look like:

<Attachments>
  </Attachments>

 <Templates>
  </Templates>

After adding two elements to each node, they should look like: 

<Attachments>
        <Attachment INDEX0="Test1" />
        <Attachment INDEX1="Test2" />
      </Attachments>

     <Templates>
        <Template INDEX0="Test1">EMPTY</Template>
        <Template INDEX0="Test2">EMPTY</Template>
      </Templates>

I tried following code for the first one:

 XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        doc.Load(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "test.xml"));
        XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
        XmlNode node = root.SelectSingleNode("//Attachments");

    List<String> list = new List<string>() {"Test1","Test2"};

    foreach(var item in list)
    {
        XmlElement elem = doc.CreateElement("Attachment");
        root.AppendChild(elem);
        XmlNode subNode = root.SelectSingleNode("Attachment");
        XmlAttribute xKey = doc.CreateAttribute(string.Format("INDEX{0}", list.IndexOf(item).ToString()));
        xKey.Value = item;
        subNode.Attributes.Append(xKey);
    }

but this does absolutely nothing. How can I achieve these two cases?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 734

Answers (2)

Charles Mager
Charles Mager

Reputation: 26213

I'd suggest using LINQ to XML unless you have a specific reason you can't. The old XmlDocument API is quite painful to work with:

var items = new List<string> {"Test1", "Test2"};

var attachments = items.Select((value, index) =>
    new XElement("Attachment", new XAttribute("INDEX" + index, value)));

var doc = XDocument.Load(@"path/to/file.xml");

doc.Descendants("Attachments")
    .Single()
    .Add(attachments);

See this fiddle for a working demo.

Upvotes: 2

Canox
Canox

Reputation: 559

Sorry, I found the error. The foreach loop should look like:

        foreach(var item in list)
        {
            XmlElement elem = doc.CreateElement(string.Format("Attachment{0}", list.IndexOf(item)));
            node.AppendChild(elem);
            XmlNode subNode = root.SelectSingleNode(string.Format("//Attachment{0}", list.IndexOf(item)));
            XmlAttribute xKey = doc.CreateAttribute(string.Format("INDEX{0}", list.IndexOf(item).ToString()));
            xKey.Value = item;
            subNode.Attributes.Append(xKey);
        }

but I still don't know how to achieve the case with the template attribute in my example.

Upvotes: 0

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