parsing XML content - C#

Question

I have not used XML for very long and need to extract the useful information from an XML response. If there are 2 tags that are the same but have a different name e.g

Answer 1

Try this to start:

XPathDocument docNav = new XPathDocument(pathName);
XPathNavigator nav = docNav.CreateNavigator();
XmlNamespaceManager ns = new XmlNamespaceManager(nav.NameTable);

string val =  nav.SelectSingleNode(@"/lst/lst[@name='overflow']/str")

These are good resources for simple XPath navigation and .NET XML Parsing:

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/52079/Using-XPathNavigator-in-C