how to read xml file in c#

There are many ways to read the XML file like XMLReader , XMLTestReader, XMLDocument.

Read XML file using  XMLDocument

Suppose you have the XML as

<Employee>

  <employe>

    <Name>John</Name>

    <phonenumber>787887878</phonenumber>

  </employe>

  <employe>

    <Name>Jane</Name>

    <phonenumber>7867678676</phonenumber>

  </employe>

</Employee>

loop through the collection of employee from  each of employe  retrieve its first and phone number;

@Code snippet

   class Program

    {

        ///

        /// Main method

        ///

        ///

        public static void Main(String[] args)

        {

            Program _app = new Program();

            // Passing XML text as a String, you can also use the

            // XMLDocument::Load( ) method to read the XML from a file.

            //

            _app.ProcessXML(@"

 

    John

    787887878

 

 

    Jane

    7867678676

 

");

        }

        //Call method to print the values

        public void printValue(String strName, String strPhoneNumber)

        {

            Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1}", strName, strPhoneNumber);

        }

        //Process the XML values

        public void ProcessXML(String xmlText)

        {

            XmlDocument _doc = new XmlDocument();

            _doc.LoadXml(xmlText);

            //  _doc.Load( _strFilename); //alternat way to read from a file.

            XmlNodeList _Name = _doc.GetElementsByTagName("Name"); //Name is name of node

            XmlNodeList _phoneNumber = _doc.GetElementsByTagName("phonenumber");

            

            for (int _i = 0; _i < _Name.Count; ++_i)

            {

                printValue(_Name[_i].InnerText,

                    _phoneNumber[_i].InnerText);

            }

        }

    }

@output