Reading data from XML [duplicate]

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I don’t think you can “legally” load only part of an XML file, since then it would be malformed (there would be a missing closing element somewhere).

Using LINQ-to-XML, you can do var doc = XDocument.Load("yourfilepath"). From there its just a matter of querying the data you want, say like this:

var authors = doc.Root.Elements().Select( x => x.Element("Author") );

HTH.

EDIT:

Okay, just to make this a better sample, try this (with @JWL_’s suggested improvement):

using System;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1 {
    class Program {
        static void Main( string[] args )  {
            XDocument doc = XDocument.Load( "XMLFile1.xml" );
            var authors = doc.Descendants( "Author" );
            foreach ( var author in authors ) {
                Console.WriteLine( author.Value );
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

You will need to adjust the path in XDocument.Load() to point to your XML file, but the rest should work. Ask questions about which parts you don’t understand.

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