How to get values from an XML file matching XPath query in C#

Question

I\'m wondering whether there is a way using C# which enables me to return all the inner values within an XML file matching a given XPath query.

Let\'s suppose that we ha

Answer 1

One way to do this is to use System.Xml.XPath.Extensions.XPathEvaluate.

E.g.

string xmlFilePath = "exampleWithFruits.xml";
string xPathQuery = "//fruits/apples//@color";

var doc = XDocument.Load(xmlFilePath);
IEnumerable att = (IEnumerable)doc.XPathEvaluate(xPathQuery);
string[] matchingValues = att.Cast<XAttribute>().Select(x => x.Value).ToArray();

Or if you prefer XmlDocument:

var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(xmlFilePath);
string[] matchingValues = doc.SelectNodes(xPathQuery).Cast<XmlAttribute>().Select(x => x.Value).ToArray();