I'm Trying to convert this xml to array saving the attributes names. Because I need to send this parameters to a Client using Wcf, and the client needs to display that information
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Configuration>
<Cameras>
<Camera Name="Camera1" Url="Camera1" Width="600" Height="800" />
<Camera Name="Camera2" Url="Camera2" Width="600" Height="800" />
</Cameras>
</Configuration>
I'm using C#
There are two ways,
Using Linq to XML
You can get array of Name attributes by using linq to xml
string testData = @"<Configuration>
<Cameras>
<Camera Name =""Camera1"" Url = ""Camera1"" Width = ""600"" Height = ""800"" />
<Camera Name = ""Camera2"" Url = ""Camera2"" Width = ""600"" Height = ""800"" />
</Cameras>
</Configuration>";
XDocument xdc = XDocument.Parse(testData);
var arrNames = xdc.Root
.Descendants("Camera")
.Select(e => e.Attribute("Name")).ToArray();
Using XML serialization
Create class structure of your xml, deserialize xml to object and you can get list of all your required properties
xml
<Configuration>
<Cameras>
<Camera Name="Camera1" Url="Camera1" Width="600" Height="800" />
<Camera Name="Camera2" Url="Camera2" Width="600" Height="800" />
</Cameras>
</Configuration>
C# Classes
using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace Xml2CSharp
{
[XmlRoot(ElementName="Camera")]
public class Camera {
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="Name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="Url")]
public string Url { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="Width")]
public string Width { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="Height")]
public string Height { get; set; }
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName="Cameras")]
public class Cameras {
[XmlElement(ElementName="Camera")]
public List<Camera> Camera { get; set; }
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName="Configuration")]
public class Configuration {
[XmlElement(ElementName="Cameras")]
public Cameras Cameras { get; set; }
}
}
To deserialize xml use below code
string testData = @"<Configuration>
<Cameras>
<Camera Name =""Camera1"" Url = ""Camera1"" Width = ""600"" Height = ""800"" />
<Camera Name = ""Camera2"" Url = ""Camera2"" Width = ""600"" Height = ""800"" />
</Cameras>
</Configuration>";
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Configuration));
// testData is your xml string
using (TextReader reader = new StringReader(testData))
{
Configuration result = (Configuration)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
string[] arr = XDocument.Load(@"FileNamewithPath.xml").Descendants("NodeName")
.Select(element => element.Value).ToArray();
should work for you
you can also use like this .Select(x => (int) x) if names are not their