C# reading an xml file, node value returns as blank

Question

So basically, working on a xml file, that looks like this:

...
<city id="thatstheid">
  <country id="anotherid"> VALUE </country>
</city>
...

and i read the stuff i need using:

XmlDocument doc;//let's say this is the file im reading

XmlNode cityNode = doc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("city");
cityname = cityNode.Attributes["id"].Value;

XmlNode countryNode = cityNode.SelectSingleNode("country");
countryname = countryNode.Value;

The problem here being that

countryname = countryNode.Value;

brings back an empty value, even though there's something inside.

If i try to get any atributes from the inside like this :

countryname = countryNode.Attributes["id"].Value;

it works fine, so i don't know what's the problem.

You may want to check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7877609/xmlnode-value-vs-innertext — Jeffrey Wieder, Jul 08 '15 at 13:24
@JeffreyWieder Thanks a lot, was interested why it worked the way it did. — jonas rudzionis, Jul 08 '15 at 13:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '15 at 13:24

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Try InnerText

countryname = countryNode.InnerText;

answered Jul 08 '15 at 13:24

James Joyce Alano

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yeah, seems to work, thanks a lot, any idea why .value doesn't work? Edit: nevermind, saw the comment on my main post. – jonas rudzionis Jul 08 '15 at 13:28

C# reading an xml file, node value returns as blank

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