如何从web.config中读取自定义部分？

Question

I am implementing some IIS module to work with web.config of application. I already had working part of module, but I managed to read custom section from web.config.

I added the following IIS schema for my custom section to standard folder %windir%\\system32\\inetsrv\\config\\schema\\ :

<configSchema>
  <sectionSchema name="myCustomSection">
    <element name="customCollection">
        <collection addElement="customItem">            
            <attribute name="name" type="string" />
            <attribute name="path" type="string" />
        </collection>
    </element>
  </sectionSchema>
</configSchema>

The following XML fits to the sectionSchema:

<configuration>
    <myCustomSection>
      <customCollection>
        <customItem name="item1" path="D:\item1\web.config" />
        <customItem name="item2" path="D:\item2\web.config" />
        <customItem name="item3" path="D:\item3\web.config" />                   
      </customCollection>
    </myCustomSection>
...
</configuration>

My code can read section myCustomSection and element customCollection, but customCollection is empty =(

Code to read:

    [ModuleServiceMethod(PassThrough = true)]
    public PropertyBag GetAppSettings(string applicationPath)
    {
        var bag = new PropertyBag();
        var manager = this.ManagementUnit.ServerManager;
        var configurationPath = ManagementConfigurationPath.CreateApplicationConfigurationPath(ManagementUnit.ConfigurationPath.SiteName, applicationPath);
        var effectiveConfigurationPath = configurationPath.GetEffectiveConfigurationPath(ManagementScope.Server);
        var configuration = manager.GetWebConfiguration(ManagementUnit.ConfigurationMap, effectiveConfigurationPath);

        var claimsSection = configuration.GetSection("myCustomSection");
        var child = claimsSection.GetChildElement("customCollection");
        var childCollection = child.GetCollection(); //count = 0
        // var childCollection = child.GetCollection("customItem"); throw exception

        ...
        return bag;
    }

May someone know how to get children from collection?

UPDATE

Unfortunately, I passed wrong applicationPath to this function. Moreover, there is neater code to do the same stuff:

var section = ManagementUnit.Configuration.GetSection("myCustomSection");
var child = sect.GetChildElement("customCollection");
var childCollection = child.GetCollection();

Answer 1

Get raw XML From section and process that XML to get attribute values.

       var claimsSection = config.GetSection("myCustomSection");
        string xml = claimsSection.SectionInformation.GetRawXml();
        System.Xml.XmlDocument xDoc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
        xDoc.LoadXml(xml);

        System.Xml.XmlNode xList = xDoc.ChildNodes[0];
        for (int i =0; i< xList.ChildNodes.Count; i++)
        {
            foreach (System.Xml.XmlNode xNodo in xList.ChildNodes[i])
            {
                Console.WriteLine((xNodo.Attributes[0].Value));

            }
        }