Nested XML to Dictionary

Question

I am trying to convert an XML data into dictionary. I am having problems with identical node names. C# .Net 3.5

Sample XML = the problem is I have no control over this.

Answer 1

How about using DynamicXml here

dynamic root = DynamicXml.Load("a.xml");

Console.WriteLine(root.a1);
foreach (var p in root.Parameter)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0}:{1}",p.ParameterName, p.ParameterValue);
}
Console.WriteLine(root.Parameter[0].ParameterValue);

EDIT

A generic approach would be to get a dictionary Dictionary But there are some problems while converting an xml to dictionary. For example

val1

dict["a1"] would return val1, but what would this xml return

valName

dict["a1"]["name"] ? valAttr or valName?

And considering your example, the only difference between dict["a1"] and dict["Parameter"] is that Parameter exists more than once under the same parent and it should be thought as an array rather than a single element.

DynamicXml tries to solve these issues. Of course there is a lot of room for improvement but It should work for basic needs.