How do i add data from XML to list<>?

Question

I try to read from an xml file, but its very clonky and a lot of the data I get is in bunch from a child. I get the Name, Age, and so on in one and therefor I can\'t add it to a

Answer 1

Let's assume you have this class:

public class Person
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Sex { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }
}

Then, to load your XML file, you could do something like:

var doc = XDocument.Load("path to your file");

var people = doc.Root
    .Descendants("person")
    .Select(node => new Person
    {
        Name = node.Element("name").Value,
        Sex = node.Element("sex").Value,
        Age = int.Parse(node.Element("age").Value)
    })
    .ToList();

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb353813.aspx