C# String.Replace double quotes and Literals

Question

I\'m fairly new to c# so that\'s why I\'m asking this here.

I am consuming a web service that returns a long string of XML values. Because this is a string all the attri

Answer 1

If you are getting an XML string why not use XML instead strings?

you will have access to all elements and attributes and it will be much easier and extremely fast if using the System.Xml namespace

in your example you are getting this string:

string xmlSample = "";

All you need to do is convert that string into a XML Document and use it, like:

System.Xml.XmlDocument xml = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
xml.LoadXml(xmlSample);

System.Xml.XmlElement _root = xml.DocumentElement;

foreach (System.Xml.XmlNode _node in _root)
{
    Literal1.Text = "
" + _node.Name + "
";
    for (int iAtt = 0; iAtt < _node.Attributes.Count; iAtt++)
        Literal1.Text += _node.Attributes[iAtt].Name + " = " + _node.Attributes[iAtt].Value + "
";
}

in ASP.NET this will output to the Literal1 something like:

item
att1 = value
att2 = value2

once you have the element in a XmlElement, it is very easy to search and get the values and names for what's in that element.

give it a try, I use it a lot when retrieving WebServices responses and when I store something in a XML file as settings for a small application for example.