Bulent Ozkir

Suppose I have following XML fragment:

John

Doe

Jane

Eod

Now, how can I loop through my collection of authors and for each author retrieve its first and last name and put them in a variable strFirst and strLast?

- - - XMLApp.cs

using System;

using System.Xml;

public class XMLApp

{

public void YourMethod( String strFirst, String strLast)

{

// Do something with strFirst and strLast.

// ...

Console.WriteLine( "{0}, {1}", strLast, strFirst);

}

public void ProcessXML( String xmlText)

{

XmlDocument _doc = new XmlDocument( );

_doc.LoadXml( xmlText);

// alternately, _doc.Load( _strFilename); to read from a file.

XmlNodeList _fnames = _doc.GetElementsByTagName( "FirstName" );

XmlNodeList _lnames = _doc.GetElementsByTagName( "LastName" );

// I'm assuming every FirstName has a LastName in this example, your requirements may vary. //

for ( int _i = 0; _i < _fnames.Count; ++_i )

{

YourMethod( _fnames[ _i].InnerText,

_lnames[ _i].InnerText );

}

public static void Main( String[] args)

{

XMLApp _app = new XMLApp( );

// Passing XML text as a String, you can also use the

// XMLDocument::Load( ) method to read the XML from a file.

//

_app.ProcessXML( @"

John

Doe

Jane

Eod

" );

}

} // end XMLApp

- - - XMLApp.cs

Remember to /reference the System.Xml.dll on the command-line to build XMLApp.cs:

csc.exe /r:System.Xml.dll XMLApp.cs