How do I read and parse an XML file in C#?

Question

How do I read and parse an XML file in C#?

Answer 1

There are lots of way, some:

• XmlSerializer. use a class with the target schema you want to read - use XmlSerializer to get the data in an Xml loaded into an instance of the class.
• Linq 2 xml
• XmlTextReader.
• XmlDocument
• XPathDocument (read-only access)