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Kevin - 19 Mar 2007 01:09 GMT

I have an XML node that has both attributes and text. I am having difficulty
getting the xmlreader to deal with this.

Sample XML Node:
<HomePhoneNumber Attribute1="Y" Attribute2="Y" Attribute3="Y">(425)
555-1212</HomePhoneNumber>

I'd like to iterate on this and output the node's path, name, each attribute
name and value pair, as well as the phone number itself.

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Martin Honnen - 19 Mar 2007 14:12 GMT

> I have an XML node that has both attributes and text. I am having difficulty
> getting the xmlreader to deal with this.
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> I'd like to iterate on this and output the node's path, name, each attribute
> name and value pair, as well as the phone number itself.

Do it like this:

using (XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(@"file.xml")) {
while (xmlReader.Read()) {
if (xmlReader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element) {
if (xmlReader.Name == "HomePhoneNumber") {
Console.WriteLine("Element \"{0}\":", xmlReader.Name);
while (xmlReader.MoveToNextAttribute()) {
Console.WriteLine("Attribute {0}={1}", xmlReader.Name,
xmlReader.Value);
}
Console.WriteLine("Element content: \"{0}\"",
xmlReader.ReadString());
Console.WriteLine();
}
}
}
}

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Kevin - 23 Mar 2007 05:51 GMT

Great thanks - I should explain my problem more - I am trying to write a
function that traverses an XML document and outputs the full path
(/Node1/Node2/Node3), and a list of attribute/value pairs, as well as the
content of the node.

The below solution is able to output the latter 2, but path seems difficult
to get from XmlReader and I find myself writing a recursive function to get
this.

For example, an an input file:
<root>
<node1 attributeX="Y">XXX</node1>
<node2>
<node3 attributeY="N">YYY</node3>
</node2>
</root>

would output the following:

Path,Value
-------------------
/root/node1/AttributeX,Y
/root/node1,XXX
/root/node2/node3/attributeY,N
/root/node2/node3,YYY

> > I have an XML node that has both attributes and text. I am having difficulty
> > getting the xmlreader to deal with this.
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