In C#, you can easily using XmlDocument object to read the xml. The xml data can be a file or an xml string. You will find below xml document as an example. It will list a collections of books contain details like title, ISBN, publication date, author and price.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <bookstore> <book genre="autobiography" publicationdate="1981-03-22" ISBN="1-861003-11-0"> <title>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title> <author> <first-name>Benjamin</first-name> <last-name>Franklin</last-name> </author> <price>8.99</price> </book> <book genre="novel" publicationdate="1967-11-17" ISBN="0-201-63361-2"> <title>The Confidence Man</title> <author> <first-name>Herman</first-name> <last-name>Melville</last-name> </author> <price>11.99</price> </book> <book genre="philosophy" publicationdate="1991-02-15" ISBN="1-861001-57-6"> <title>The Gorgias</title> <author> <name>Plato</name> </author> <price>9.99</price> </book> </bookstore>
Below is the sample code to read the xml document based on a file path location. Remember in order to use XmlDocument object, you will need to import System.Xml
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.Load(Server.MapPath("/bookplain.xml")); XmlNode nodeResult = doc.SelectSingleNode("/bookstore"); if (nodeResult != null) { XmlNodeList nodeList = doc.SelectNodes("/bookstore/book"); foreach (XmlNode node in nodeList) { XmlNodeList childNodes = node.ChildNodes; foreach (XmlNode childNode in childNodes) { Console.WriteLine(childNode.Name + " " + childNode.InnerText); } } }