Read XML file into XmlDocument

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I am very new to C#. I have XML file (text.xml). I want to read that in XmlDocument and store the stream in string variable.

score 186 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 09 '12 at 08:13

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Use XmlDocument.Load() method to load XML from your file. Then use XmlDocument.InnerXml property to get XML string.

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("path to your file");
string xmlcontents = doc.InnerXml;

edited Oct 09 '12 at 08:13

bluish

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answered Feb 01 '12 at 23:37

Timur Sadykov

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`XmlDocument` does not contain a definition for `Load`. – Matt Clark Nov 11 '13 at 17:09
I downvoted all of these because none of them worked. As it turns out, I am developing for WindowsRT, and the *Compact .NET Framework* has a lot of these features stripped out. Including a lot of the ones that I need... Such as `XmlDocument.Load()` and and the StreamReader constructor `StreamReader(filePath)` – Matt Clark Nov 12 '13 at 02:14
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@MattClark: I feel your pain - I've been struggling with the vagaries and limitations of CF for two years now - but that's no reason to downvote. The OP did not specify CF, and so there's no reason the answerers would take CF into consideration. – B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven Jan 06 '15 at 22:56

score 18 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 09 '12 at 08:24

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If your .NET version is newer than 3.0 you can try using System.Xml.Linq.XDocument instead of XmlDocument. It is easier to process data with XDocument.

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answered Feb 01 '12 at 23:41

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And here's how to load a file using XDocument: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/670563/linq-to-read-xml – Brian Leeming Sep 04 '13 at 20:44

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited May 11 '14 at 17:52

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XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
   doc.Load("MonFichierXML.xml");

    XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("Magasin");

    XmlNodeList prop = node.SelectNodes("Items");

    foreach (XmlNode item in prop)
    {
        items Temp = new items();
        Temp.AssignInfo(item);
        lstitems.Add(Temp);
    }

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answered May 11 '14 at 17:27

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Abdul Hfuda · Answer 4 · 2012-02-01T23:50:56.597

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Hope you dont mind Xml.Linq and .net3.5+

XElement ele = XElement.Load("text.xml");
String aXmlString = ele.toString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);

Depending on what you are interested in, you can probably skip the whole 'string' var part and just use XLinq objects

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answered Feb 01 '12 at 23:38

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 09 '19 at 20:50

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var doc = new XmlDocument(); 
doc.Loadxml(@"c:\abc.xml");

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answered Mar 19 '15 at 18:39

Note the question also requires to store the XML content into a string. – mins Mar 19 '15 at 19:03
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`XmlDocument.LoadXml()` loads an XML string. To load an XML file by name, use `XmlDocument.Load()` as the accepted answer suggests. – François Beaune Jan 27 '16 at 14:42

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