I have to read an XML
document and insert the values into a List<T>
of my objects.
+Result
-username
-dob
-answer1
-answer2
-uuid
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<export exportDate="2012-11-07T12:03:52.823+11:00">
<survey type="USER" completion="2012-11-07T11:46:52.754+11:00" reference="2012-11-07T11:30:34.680+11:00" year="2012" uuid="226f2aa3-46e6-46ab-8995-7d52eb21d5f4">
<user xsi:type="USER" created="2012-11-07T11:09:30.409+11:00" dob="08/06/1988" surname="Billy" name="Bob" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
<subject created="2012-11-07T11:09:30.409+11:00" dob="08/06/1988" surname="Billy" name="Bob"/>
<version released="1970-01-01T10:00:02.012+10:00" version="1"/>
<result group="2" rawscore="2.4" metric="1"/>
<result group="2" rawscore="2.0" metric="2"/>
<answer score="1" question="6"/>
<answer score="2" question="7"/>
</survey>
</export>
I was previously using XmlDocument as I have in the past but now that Im working with Linq im sure this can be done in just a few lines. I dont like the look of the code below, if anyway has some tips please help.
thankyou
List<Result> results = new List<Result>();
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(filename);
XmlNodeList objects = doc.GetElementsByTagName("survey");
foreach (XmlNode o in objects)
{
Result result = new Result();
if (o.Attributes["type"].Value == "USER" || o.Attributes["type"].Value == "ADMIN")
{
result.surveycompleted = o.Attributes["completion"].Value;
XmlNodeList usernodes = o.SelectNodes("user");
....
if (usernodes.Count > 0)
{}
else
{
Use LINQ2XML:
XElement doc=XElement.Load(filename);
List<Result> lstSurvey=doc.DescendantsAndSelf("Survey").Select(x=>
new Result
{
uuid=x.Element("Survey").Attribute("uuid").Value,
username=x.Element("user").Attribute("name").Value,
dob=x.Element("user").Attribute("dob").Value,
answer1=x.Elements("answer").First().Value,
answer2=x.Elements("answer").Skip(1).First().Value
}
).ToList<Result>();
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