Converting a XML to Generic List

Question

I am trying to convert XML to List

  
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Answer 1

You can create an anonymous type

var studentLst=dox.Descendants("Student").Select(d=>
new{
    id=d.Element("Id").Value,
    Name=d.Element("Name").Value,
    Section=d.Element("Section").Value
   }).ToList();

This creates a list of anonymous type..

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If you want to create a list of Student type

class Student{public int id;public string name,string section}

List<Student> studentLst=dox.Descendants("Student").Select(d=>
new Student{
    id=d.Element("Id").Value,
    name=d.Element("Name").Value,
    section=d.Element("Section").Value
   }).ToList();

Answer 2

I see that you have accepted an answer. But I just want to show another way which I like. First you will need classes as below:

public class Student
{
    [XmlElement("Id")]
    public int StudentID { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("Name")]
    public string StudentName { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("Section")]
    public int Section { get; set; }
}

[XmlRoot("School")]
public class School
{
    [XmlElement("Student", typeof(Student))]
    public List<Student> StudentList { get; set; }
}

Then you can deserialize this xml:

string path = //path to xml file

using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(path))
{
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(School));
    School school = (School)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}

Hope it will be helpful.

Answer 3

var students = from student in dox.Descendants("Student")
           select new
            {
                id=d.Element("Id").Value,
                Name=d.Element("Name").Value,
                Section=d.Element("Section").Value
            }).ToList();

or you can create a class call Student with id, name and section as properties and do:

var students = from student in dox.Descendants("Student")
           select new Student
            {
                id=d.Element("Id").Value,
                Name=d.Element("Name").Value,
                Section=d.Element("Section").Value
            }).ToList();