Parsing Optional Tags in C#
I'm tr开发者_开发百科ying to find an easy and slick way to do the following requirement.
I have a XML message with this arrangement:
<persons>
<person>
<firstName>Mike</firstName>
<middleName>K.</middleName>
<lastName>Kelly</lastName>
</person>
<person>
<firstName>Steve</firstName>
<lastName>David</lastName>
</person>
<person>
<firstName>Laura</firstName>
<middleName>X.</middleName>
<lastName>Xavier</lastName>
</person>
</persons>
I want to parse this XML using xPath expressions.
persons/person/firstName
persons/person/middleName
persons/person/lastName
My objective is store firstName, middleName and lastName tag values like this into a list of string objects like this:
firstNameList[0] = "Mike";
firstNameList[1] = "Steve";
firstNameList[2] = "Laura";
middleNameList[0] = "K.";
middleNameList[1] = null;
middleNameList[2] = "X.";
lastNameList[0] = "Kelly";
lastNameList[1] = "David";
lastNameList[2] = "Xavier";
In my C# code, I do this:
XmlNodeList firstNameNodeList = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("persons/person/firstName", nsmgr);
XmlNodeList middleNameNodeList = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("persons/person/middleName", nsmgr);
XmlNodeList lastNameNodeList = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("persons/person/lastName", nsmgr);
The problem with this code is that for middle name, I don't have it for 2nd person in my XML list. So the middleNameNodeList returns 2 values (K. and X.) but I wouldn't know whether the 1st or 2nd or 3rd person's middle name is missing.
I was hoping that SelectNodes() API would provide an iteration or index ID as which repeating element has a given value.
Please suggest me an easiest way to achieve what I needed? Thanks so much for your help, JK
How about this?
foreach (Node person in xmlDoc.SelectNodes("persons/person", nsmgr))
{
firstNameNodeList.Add(person.SelectSingleNode("firstName", nsmgr));
middleNameNodeList.Add(person.SelectSingleNode("middleName", nsmgr));
lastNameNodeList.Add(person.SelectSingleNode("lastName", nsmgr));
}
Intead of getting a list of names, try getting a list of person
s, then iterate the list and get their names.
You just have to iterate over persons/person
and handle each individually - this would work:
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(@"test.xml");
var persons = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("persons/person");
foreach (XmlNode person in persons)
{
string firstName = person.SelectSingleNode("firstName").InnerText;
string middleName = (person.SelectSingleNode("middleName") != null)
? person.SelectSingleNode("middleName").InnerText
: null;
string lastName = person.SelectSingleNode("lastName").InnerText;
}
Try
<persons>
<person>
<firstName>Mike</firstName>
<middleName>K.</middleName>
<lastName>Kelly</lastName>
</person>
<person>
<firstName>Steve</firstName>
<middleName />
<lastName>David</lastName>
</person>
<person>
<firstName>Laura</firstName>
<middleName>X.</middleName>
<lastName>Xavier</lastName>
</person>
</persons>
<person>
<firstName>Steve</firstName>
<middleName />
<lastName>David</lastName>
</person>
this should return "K","","X" for InnnerText
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