How can I get the XML-part between "quotation marks" in C#?

Question

I am writing a program in C#, to convert XML(XLF) to JSON.

<group id="THISisWHATiWANT">
    <trans-unit id="loadingDocument" translate="yes" xml:space="preserve">
                <source>Harry</source>
                <target state="final">Potter1</target>
            </trans-unit>
  </group>

How can I get the group id?

This is what I already have:

 XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        doc.LoadXml(xml);

@nvoigt I didn't know that this is called "attribute value" so I couldn't find this question. — Thomas Felber, Jul 18 '18 at 09:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '18 at 08:40

What you're looking for is an attribute value.

I'd strongly suggest using LINQ to XML (XDocument etc) rather than XmlDocument - it's a much more modern API. In this case, you could use:

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
string groupId = doc.Root.Attribute("id").Value;

If this is actually part of a larger document, you might use something like:

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
XElement group = doc.Descendants("group").First();
string groupId = group.Attribute("id").Value;

How can I get the XML-part between "quotation marks" in C#?

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