Nested XML to Dictionary

Question

I am trying to convert an XML data into dictionary. I am having problems with identical node names. C# .Net 3.5

Sample XML = the problem is I have no control over this.

Answer 1

Here is a method which will distill the data into tuples and then output a dictionary. Note it doesn't check for duplicate keys, but that could be added:

string data = @"

  val1
  val2
  
    param1
    paramval1
  
  
    param2
    paramval2
  
";

var elements = XDocument.Parse( data )
                        .Element("Root")
                        .Descendants();

var asTupleChildren =  elements.Where (e => e.HasElements)
                               .Select (e => new Tuple(e.Element("ParameterName").Value, e.Element("ParameterValue").Value ));

var asTupleElements =  elements.Where (e => e.HasElements == false)
                               .Where (e => e.Name != "ParameterName" && e.Name != "ParameterValue" )
                               .Select (e => new Tuple(e.Name.ToString(), e.Value ));


var asDictionary =  asTupleElements.Concat(asTupleChildren)
                                   .ToDictionary (te => te.Item1, te => te.Item2);


/* asDictionary is a Dictionary (4 items)

a1 val1
a2 val2
param1 paramval1
param2 paramval2

*/