creating DropdownList

Question

Consider the following XML file:

Answer 1

Load the xml into an XElement:

        var xml = XElement.Load("test.xml");

Execute XPath to select the SN elements in the cats with id computer: (+ put them in a list)

        var snValues = xml.XPathSelectElements("//cat[@id='computer']/item/SN")
                        .Select(x => x.Value).ToList();

Required usings:

        using System.Linq;
        using System.Xml.Linq;
        using System.Xml.XPath;