XDocument Implementation

Question

I'm trying to best understand how to implement the following XML as an XDocument, but I'm rather new to the XDocument stuff and I'm running into a conceptual problem of how to get around the multi-attribute in an Element with a value nested inside another Element.

The below is a sample of the XML -- any help would be appreciated

<LVNPImport xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <InterfaceIdentifier>835</InterfaceIdentifier>
    <FolderPaths>
        <Folder fromDate="" toDate="" contactName="APerson" email="AnEmail">Remittance Advice</Folder>
        <Folder>%FACILITY%</Folder>
        <Folder>%PAYORID%</Folder>
        <Folder>%REMITDATE YYYY%</Folder>
        <Folder>%REMITDATE MMMM YYYY%</Folder>
    </FolderPaths>
    <DocumentType>RA</DocumentType>
    <DocumentDescription>%REMITDATE MM-DD-YY%</DocumentDescription>
    <TotalFiles>1</TotalFiles>
</LVNPImport>

EDIT

The above is a template -- I'm not reading in, I'm writing out so I need to create the above as an XDoc.

I'm just getting into the XDocument stuff and what I have is pretty much what you can find with most examples on Stack.

What is your exact problem? You can load the XML into an XDocument object and you can then query the structure and the XElement attributes... — Reinder Wit, Mar 25 '14 at 15:10
Show us what you've tried, so we can help you solve your actual problem, not just give solution. — MarcinJuraszek, Mar 25 '14 at 15:10
@ReinderWit The above is a template -- I'm trying to figure out how to create the above as an XDocument. — mlw4428, Mar 25 '14 at 15:11
OK, do you have some code you've already tried out? The implementation shouldn't be to hard... — Reinder Wit, Mar 25 '14 at 15:12
I'm sure we can help, but we need to know more about where your problem is. Are you trying to get the values of these attributes starting with the `XDocument`? Can you post the code as well as the XML — Chris Ballard, Mar 25 '14 at 15:13
@ReinderWit [Pretty much I'm following the ideas presented in the following answer posted on another question](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2948356/1693074) — mlw4428, Mar 25 '14 at 15:14
@ChrisBallard See my answer to ReinderWit -- what I'm trying to get past, conceptually, is how I can add an element that has multiple attributes with a value which is nested inside another element. The area in the XML is everything in the element — mlw4428, Mar 25 '14 at 15:16

Reinder Wit · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-25T15:38:56.113

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You can pass multiple attributes inside the new XElement overload, as the objects content:

XElement folderPath = new XElement("FolderPaths");
folderPath.Add(
    new XElement(
        "Folder", 
        new XAttribute("fromDate", String.Empty), 
        new XAttribute("toDate", String.Empty), 
        new XAttribute("contactName", "APerson"), 
        new XAttribute("email", "AnEmail"), 
        "Remittance Advice"
    )
);

edited Mar 25 '14 at 15:38

answered Mar 25 '14 at 15:19

Reinder Wit

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This was extremely helpful, I've voted up your post -- thank you! – mlw4428 Mar 25 '14 at 15:54

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 15:53

For anyone looking at this, between the help I've gotten on this answer from @ReinderWit as well as the answer from another question (see the other comments in the question) I was able to figure out how to build up the XDocument.

The code follows:

            _folderviewContents =
            new XDocument(
                new XElement("InterfaceIdentifier", "835"),
                //Start of FolderPaths 
                new XElement("FolderPaths",
                    new XElement("Folder",
                        new XAttribute("fromDate", String.Empty),
                        //attributes for Folder w/ lots of attributes
                        new XAttribute("toDate", String.Empty),
                        new XAttribute("contactName", "APerson"),
                        new XAttribute("email", "AnEmail"),
                        //value for that long Folder w/ lots of attributes
                        "Remittance Advice"),
            //Facility
                    new XElement("Folder", String.Empty),
            //PayorID
                    new XElement("Folder", String.Empty),
            //RemitDate Year
                    new XElement("Folder", String.Empty),
            //RemitDate Month/Year
                    new XElement("Folder", String.Empty)),
            new XElement("DocumentType", "RA"),
            new XElement("DocumentDescription",String.Empty),
            new XElement("TotalFiles", "1"));

I still need to add the XML version and the Namespace, but those seem simple enough to do. Hopefully this helps others in the future with building XDocs that are a bit weird and not-so-straightforward.

XDocument Implementation

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