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

You may use the System.Xml.Linq namespace:

var xDoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
var result = xDoc.Descendants()
    .Where(d => 
        d.Name == "lst" && 
        d.Attributes("name").FirstOrDefault()!=null &&
        d.Attributes("name").FirstOrDefault().Value == "overflow")
    .FirstOrDefault();