Parse XML document in C#

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How do you parse XML document from bottom up in C#?

For Example :

<Employee>
   <Name> Test </name>
   <ID> 123 </ID>
<Employee>
<Company>
    <Name>ABC</company>
    <Email>test@ABC.com</Email>
 </company>

Like these there are many nodes..I need to start parsing from bottom up like..first parse <company> and then and so on..How doi go about this in C# ?

I like Linq's [XDocument](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.linq.xdocument.aspx). — DanDan, Aug 06 '09 at 12:40
You can use the [XmlSerializer](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmlserializer.aspx) class. It takes your class and can read/write it to XML files really easily. — speps, Aug 06 '09 at 12:31
checkout the System.Xml Namespace http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml%28VS.80%29.aspx — nWorx, Aug 06 '09 at 12:26

Jon Grant · Answer 1 · 2012-02-26T09:17:41.433

Try this:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(@"C:\Path\To\Xml\File.xml");

Or alternatively if you have the XML in a string use the LoadXml method.

Once you have it loaded, you can use SelectNodes and SelectSingleNode to query specific values, for example:

XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("//Company/Email/text()");
// node.Value contains "test@ABC.com"

Finally, note that your XML is invalid as it doesn't contain a single root node. It must be something like this:

<Data>
    <Employee>
        <Name>Test</Name>
        <ID>123</ID>
    </Employee>
    <Company>
        <Name>ABC</Name>
        <Email>test@ABC.com</Email>
    </Company>
</Data>

Parse XML document in C#

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