xmldocument

Lets say I have the following xml (a quick example) <rows> <row> <name>one</name> </row> <row> <name>two</name> </row> </rows> I am trying to parse this by using XmlDocument and XPath (ultimately so I can make a list of rows). For example... XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.LoadXml(xml); foreach(XmlNode row in doc.SelectNodes("//row")) { string rowName = row.SelectSingleNode("//name").InnerText; } Why, within my foreach loop, is rowName always "one"? I am expecting it to be "one" on the first iteration and "two" on the second. It seems that //name gets the first instance in the

If I want to compare the contents of a XMlDocument, is it just like this? XmlDocument doc1 = GetDoc1(); XmlDocument doc2 = GetDoc2(); if(doc1 == doc2) { } I am not checking if they are both the same object reference, but if the CONTENTS of the xml are the same. LBushkin No. XmlDocument does not override the behavior of the Equals() method so, it is in fact just performing reference equality - which will fail in your example, unless the documents are actually the same object instance. If you want to compare the contents (attributes, elements, commments, PIs, etc) of a document you will have to

How to remove all child nodes of an XmlElement , but keep all attributes? Note, that XmlElement.RemoveAll also removes all attributes. What is a clean, elegant and well-performing way to remove all child nodes? In other words, what is best-practice here? For a truly efficient solution: e.IsEmpty = true; is your fastest and simplest option. It does exactly what you requested: all inner text and nested elements are discarded, while attributes are retained. Would this solution not be simpler? while(e.FirstChild != null) e.RemoveChild(e.FirstChild); Option 1 Use elem.InnerXml = ""; The full

I have an XMLDocument that i need to read in and convert into a set of objects. I have the following objects public class Location { public string Name; public List<Building> Buildings; } public class Building { public string Name; public List<Room> Rooms; } and i have the following XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <info> <locations> <location name="New York"> <Building name="Building1"> <Rooms> <Room name="Room1"> <Capacity>18</Capacity> </Room> <Room name="Room2"> <Capacity>6</Capacity> </Room> </Rooms> </Building> <Building name="Building2"> <Rooms> <Room name="RoomA">

I'm trying to load a piece of (possibly) malformed HTML into an XMLDocument object, but it fails with XMLExceptions... since there are extra opening/closing tags, and malformed XML tags such as <img > instead of <img /> How do I get the XML to parse with all the errors in the data? Is there any XML validator that I can apply before parsing, to correct these errors? Or would handling the exception parse whatever can be parsed? The HTML Agility Pack will parse html, rather than xhtml, and is quite forgiving. The object model will be familiar if you've used XmlDocument . annakata You might want