Read XML file into XmlDocument

Question

I am very new to C#. I have XML file (text.xml). I want to read that in XmlDocument and store the stream in string variable.

Answer 1

If your .NET version is newer than 3.0 you can try using System.Xml.Linq.XDocument instead of XmlDocument. It is easier to process data with XDocument.

Answer 2

var doc = new XmlDocument(); 
doc.Loadxml(@"c:\abc.xml");

Answer 3

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
   doc.Load("MonFichierXML.xml");

    XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("Magasin");

    XmlNodeList prop = node.SelectNodes("Items");

    foreach (XmlNode item in prop)
    {
        items Temp = new items();
        Temp.AssignInfo(item);
        lstitems.Add(Temp);
    }

Answer 4

Hope you dont mind Xml.Linq and .net3.5+

XElement ele = XElement.Load("text.xml");
String aXmlString = ele.toString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);

Depending on what you are interested in, you can probably skip the whole 'string' var part and just use XLinq objects

Answer 5

Use XmlDocument.Load() method to load XML from your file. Then use XmlDocument.InnerXml property to get XML string.

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("path to your file");
string xmlcontents = doc.InnerXml;