LINQ-to-XML provides a SQL-like query experience for navigating, parsing, and aggregating data stored in XML documents.
LINQ-to-XML provides a SQL-like query experience for navigating, parsing, and aggregating data stored in XML documents.
Questions tagged [linq-to-xml]
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XDocument or XmlDocument
I am now learning XmlDocument but I've just ran into XDocument and when I try to search the difference or benefits of them I can't find something useful, could you please tell me why you would use one over another ?
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Populate XDocument from String
I'm working on a little something and I am trying to figure out whether I can load an XDocument from a string. XDocument.Load() seems to take the string passed to it as a path to a physical XML file.
I want to try and bypass the step of first having…
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LINQ to read XML
I am using this XML file:
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Converting XDocument to XmlDocument and vice versa
It's a very simple problem that I have. I use XDocument to generate an XML file. I then want to return it as a XmlDocument class.
And I have an XmlDocument variable which I need to convert back to XDocument to append more nodes.
So, what is the most…
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What is the difference between Linq to XML Descendants and Elements
I have came across both these keywords in the VS IntelliSense. I tried to googling the difference between them and did not get a clear answer. Which one of these have the best performance with small to medium XML files. Thanks
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How to get a JSON string from URL?
I'm switching my code form XML to JSON.
But I can't find how to get a JSON string from a given URL.
The URL is something like this: "https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=.....&format=json"
I used XDocuments before, there I could use the…
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Query an XDocument for elements by name at any depth
I have an XDocument object. I want to query for elements with a particular name at any depth using LINQ.
When I use Descendants("element_name"), I only get elements that are direct children of the current level. I'm looking for the equivalent of…
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How to put attributes via XElement
I have this code:
XElement EcnAdminConf = new XElement("Type",
new XElement("Connections",
new XElement("Conn"),
// Conn.SetAttributeValue("Server", comboBox1.Text);
// Conn.SetAttributeValue("DataBase", comboBox2.Text))),
new…
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how to use XPath with XDocument?
There is a similar question, but it seems that the solution didn't work out in my case: Weirdness with XDocument, XPath and namespaces
Here is the XML I am working with:
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XDocument.ToString() drops XML Encoding Tag
Is there any way to get the xml encoding in the toString() Function?
Example:
xml.Save("myfile.xml");
leads to
xxx
Allianz…
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The ':' character, hexadecimal value 0x3A, cannot be included in a name
I have an xml file that contains its element like
Str
When I am trying to access it using the code:
XElement tempElement = doc.Descendants(XName.Get("ab:test")).FirstOrDefault();
It's giving me this…
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XML file creation using XDocument in C#
I have a List "sampleList" which contains
Data1
Data2
Data3...
The file structure is like
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How to get Xml as string from XDocument?
I am new to LINQ to XML. After you have built XDocument, how do you get the OuterXml of it like you did with XmlDocument?
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How do I do a deep copy of an element in LINQ to XML?
I want to make a deep copy of a LINQ to XML XElement. The reason I want to do this is there are some nodes in the document that I want to create modified copies of (in the same document). I don't see a method to do this.
I could convert the…
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How to use XPath with XElement or LINQ?
Consider the following XML:
200
OK
http://bit.ly/b47LVi
b47LVi
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