使用C＃遍历父子组合xml

Question

I am new to xml, i want to looping through the below xml and save the records in the database. the below xml is parent child combination, parts as to be saved under respective parents. if the source field is M then there will be child item for that.

  <PARENT>
 <COMPONENT>
  <part>test1</part><source>M</source><ParentPart>parent</ParentPart>
  <SUBCOMPONENT>
   <part>test2</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>test1</ParentPart>
  </SUBCOMPONENT>

  <SUBCOMPONENT>
   <part>test3</part><source>M</source><ParentPart>test1</ParentPart>
   <SUBSUBCOMPONENT>
    <part>test4</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>test3</ParentPart>
   </SUBSUBCOMPONENT>
  </SUBCOMPONENT>

 </COMPONENT>

 <COMPONENT>
  <part>part1</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>parent</ParentPart>
 </COMPONENT>

 <COMPONENT>
   <part>part2</part><source>M</source><ParentPart>parent</ParentPart>
  <SUBCOMPONENT>
   <part>part3</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>part2</ParentPart>
  </SUBCOMPONENT>

  <SUBCOMPONENT>
   <part>part4</part><source>M</source><ParentPart>part2</ParentPart>
   <SUBSUBCOMPONENT>
    <part>part5</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>part4</ParentPart>
   </SUBSUBCOMPONENT>
  </SUBCOMPONENT>

 </COMPONENT>

</PARENT>

any help would be appropriated.

Thanks,

Pradeep

Answer 1

You have a lot of options here: - if you have xml schema, use xsd.exe which generates classes you fillup with XmlSerializer. - XmlDocument allows you to do XPath queries. - consider XmlTextReader if your files are large and you need fast proccesing.