How can I get a node by id in XML?

Question

I am creating a language translation using XML by id

XML:

    Word         


        

Answer 1

I suggest you to use LINQ to XML for parsing XML. It has nice strongly typed API. Getting string word by integer id looks like (requires System.Xml.Linq namespace):

var xdoc = XDocument.Load(filePath);
string word = xdoc.Root.Elements()
                  .Where(w => (int)w.Attribute("id") == id)
                  .Select(w => (string)w)
                  .FirstOrDefault();

Or even less code with XPath (requires System.Xml.XPath namespace):

string word = (string)xdoc.XPathSelectElement("//word[@id='10001']");