Generate xml from existing xml without one node

Question

I want to generate an xml from existing one but remove one node by Id: My xml is:

<PartyList>
  <Party Id="1" In="true" Out="true"/>
  <Party Id="2" In="true" Out="false"/>
  <Party Id="3" In="true" Out="true"/>
</PartyList>

and tried to select the node by using the following but cant remove it:

xmlNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/PartyList/Party[@Id='3']"));

how can I remove it? and is there a better way by using linq to xml?

har07 · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-22 11:47:38Z

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Removing selected element from the XmlDocument can be done as follow :

xmlNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/PartyList/Partyx[@Id='3']");
xmlNode.ParentNode.RemoveChild(xmlNode);
xmlDoc.Save("path_for_the_updated_file.xml");

Or using LINQ-to-XML's XDocument :

var doc = XDocument.Load("path_to_your_xml_file.xml");
doc.Root
   .Elements("Partyx")
   .First(o => (int)o.Attribute("Id") == 3)
   .Remove();
doc.Save("path_for_the_updated_file.xml");

edited Aug 22, 2015 at 11:47

answered Aug 22, 2015 at 11:41

har07

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user1150331 Over a year ago

thanks for the answer... I did it in for loop so can i keep the original xml and save the new xml in a string value

har07 Over a year ago

@user1150331 you can access the string value of the updated XML from OuterXml property of XmlDocument or by calling ToString() on the XDocument : xmlDoc.OuterXml, or doc.ToSring()

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