Select XML Nodes by Name [C#]

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To find nodes in an XML file you can use XPath expressions. Method XmlNode.Selec­tNodes returns a list of nodes selected by the XPath string. Method XmlNode.Selec­tSingleNode finds the first node that matches the XPath string.

Suppose we have this XML file.

[XML]

<Names>

    <Name>

        <FirstName>John</FirstName>

        <LastName>Smith</LastName>

    </Name>

    <Name>

        <FirstName>James</FirstName>

        <LastName>White</LastName>

    </Name>

</Names>

To get all <Name> nodes use XPath expression /Names/Name. The first slash means that the <Names> node must be a root node. SelectNodes method returns collection XmlNodeList which will contain the <Name> nodes. To get value of sub node <FirstName> you can simply index XmlNode with the node name: xmlNode["FirstName"].InnerText. See the example below.

[C#]

XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();

xml.LoadXml(myXmlString); // suppose that myXmlString contains "<Names>...</Names>"



XmlNodeList xnList = xml.SelectNodes("/Names/Name");

foreach (XmlNode xn in xnList)

{

  string firstName = xn["FirstName"].InnerText;

  string lastName = xn["LastName"].InnerText;

  Console.WriteLine("Name: {0} {1}", firstName, lastName);

}

The output is:

Name: John Smith

Name: James White