I have a large, messy XML file and I want to retrieve ALL elements of the same name ("Item" for the sake of this post) from it, then be able to retrieve data from each element's children.
So far I have returned a list of every element called "Item" using this code, which just displays the namespace url and "Item" in p tags:
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(@"C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\myxml.xml");
XNamespace ns = "http://www.mynamespace.com";
var nodes = doc.Descendants().Elements(ns + "Item").Select(d => d.Name).ToList();
foreach(var x in nodes){
<p>@x</p>
}
However, by amending the code with the following, I can't retrieve any data of it's children and I get the error 'System.Xml.Linq.XName' does not contain a definition for 'Descendants':
foreach(var x in nodes){
<p>@x.Descendants().Element("Name")</p>
}
Here is a very basic version of my XML file:
<Item>
<Name>Item 1</Name>
<Type>Type 1</Type>
</Item>
I want to be able to search each 'Item' element for a 'Name' element and return the value. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong?
This is the problem:
.Select(d => d.Name)
You're explicitly selecting the names of the elements. If you want the actual elements (which I think you do), just get rid of that call:
var nodes = doc.Descendants().Elements(ns + "Item").ToList();
You could also get rid of the ToList()
unless you need the query to be materialized eagerly.
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