Converting string array to XML in C#

Question

I have got two arrays:

string[] Countries={"US","India","China","England","Australia"};
string[] States={"Texas","Karnataka","Xinjiang","Birmingham","Canbera"};

How do i make a LINQ to XML to present it in this way:

<Category>
  <US>Texas</US>
  <India>Karnataka</India>
  <China>Xinjiang</China>
  <England>Birmingham</England>
  <Australia>Canbera</Australia>
</Cateogry>

Thanks!

har07 · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-26 10:35:09Z

4

This is one possible way using LINQ Zip() method to combine the two arrays into XElements :

string[] Countries = { "US", "India", "China", "England", "Australia" };
string[] States = { "Texas", "Karnataka", "Xinjiang", "Birmingham", "Canbera" };
var doc = new XElement("Category",
                       Countries.Zip(States, (c, s) => new XElement(c, s))
          );
Console.WriteLine(doc.ToString());

Dotnetfiddle Demo

output :

<Category>
  <US>Texas</US>
  <India>Karnataka</India>
  <China>Xinjiang</China>
  <England>Birmingham</England>
  <Australia>Canbera</Australia>
</Category>

answered Jul 26, 2015 at 10:35

har07

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