Reading specific XML elements from XML file

Question

I have the following XML file

<lexicon> <word>   <base>a</base>   <category>determiner</category>   <id>E0006419</id> </word> <word>   <base>abandon</base>   <category>verb</category>   <id>E0006429</id>   <ditransitive/>   <transitive/> </word> <word>   <base>abbey</base>   <category>noun</category>   <id>E0203496</id> </word> <word>   <base>ability</base>   <category>noun</category>   <id>E0006490</id> </word> <word>   <base>able</base>   <category>adjective</category>   <id>E0006510</id>   <predicative/>   <qualitative/> </word> <word>   <base>abnormal</base>   <category>adjective</category>   <id>E0006517</id>   <predicative/>   <qualitative/> </word> <word>   <base>abolish</base>   <category>verb</category>   <id>E0006524</id>   <transitive/> </word> </lexicon> 

I need to read this file with C# application, and if only the category is verb I want to print its entire element word.
How can I do that?

Answer 1

You could use linq to xml.

    var xmlStr = File.ReadAllText("fileName.xml");       var str = XElement.Parse(xmlStr);      var result = str.Elements("word"). Where(x => x.Element("category").Value.Equals("verb")).ToList();      Console.WriteLine(result); 

Answer 2

You could use an XPath, too. A bit old fashioned but still effective:

using System.Xml;  ...  XmlDocument xmlDocument;  xmlDocument = new XmlDocument(); xmlDocument.LoadXml(xml);  foreach (XmlElement xmlElement in      xmlDocument.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("word[category='verb']")) {     Console.Out.WriteLine(xmlElement.OuterXml); }