The example you give me worked until I tried to open an xml file with nested tags.
for example the xml looks like this
<book>
<genre>
<action>ABC</action>
<bio>DFK</bio>
</genre>
</book>
I would like the result to be this when i select to read the <genre> tag
<action>ABC</action>
<bio>DFK</bio>
but it gives me this error
Exception: System.Xml.XmlException: 'Element' is an invalid node type
is there anyway to avoid this?
[quoted text, click to view] "Aaron" <kuya789@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I need to make a script that reads the info inside a specific tag.
>
> for example the xml file looks like this
>
> <book genre="novel" publicationdate="1967" ISBN="0-201-63361-2">
> <title>The Confidence Man</title>
> <author>
> <first-name>Herman</first-name>
> <last-name>Melville</last-name>
> </author>
> <price>11.99</price>
> </book>
>
> and say i seleted the <first-name> tag I want the output to be
> Herman
>
> THe closest example i could find is this, but it reads everything in
> the xml. i want to read only the tags i choose.
>
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/doc/Xml/ReadXMLFile.aspx You can use XmlTextReader to do this. Something like (c# code, but it
could be any .Net language)
XmlReader reader = new XmlTextReader( filename );
while ( reader.Read() )
{
if ( reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element )
{
string val;
switch ( reader.Name )
{
case "first-name":
val = reader.ReadElementString();
// do something
break;
case "last-name":
val = reader.ReadElementString();
// do something
break;
default: break;
}
}
}
-derek
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