Populating dropdown from the XML in C#

Question

I have got below xml format with me and I am using .NET 2.0.

Answer 1

You could try following code, I would rather go for Xpath because it is more easier to read. DocumentLoader class, it loads content from string or any stream that has a valid xml content.

public class DocumentLoader
    {
        private readonly string content;
        public  DocumentLoader(Stream stream):this(new StreamReader(stream).ReadToEnd())
        {

        }
        public DocumentLoader(string content)
        {
            this.content = content;

        }
        public KeyValuePair[] GetNames()
    {
        List> names=new List>();
        XmlDocument document=new XmlDocument();
        document.LoadXml(this.content);
        XmlNodeList xmlNodeList = document.SelectNodes("//publication");
        if(xmlNodeList!=null)
        {
            foreach (XmlNode node in xmlNodeList)
            {
                string key = node.InnerText;
               string value = "";
                if (node.Attributes != null)
                {
                    value = node.Attributes["tcmid"].Value;
                }
                names.Add(new KeyValuePair(key,value));
            }
        }
        return names.ToArray();
    }
    }

Just a test code.

public class DocumentLoaderTest
{
    public void Test()
    {
        DocumentLoader loader = new DocumentLoader(File.Open("D:\\sampleSource.xml", FileMode.Open));
        //now names contains the value of the name element 
        List>names=loader.GetNames();
    }
}

Updated to get Name element and tcmid attribute