Read an XML Response From POST

Question

I am trying to do something similar to this, but I do not fathom how to actually read the XML response. Where would the syntax recommended by @NikolaiDante actually go? Does anyone have a full working example? I would leave a comment there but rep not high enough...

Here is a link to the original post: Read XML Response From Page

I always use Hanselman example as I understand it, and it is easy to follow

public static string HttpPost(string URI, string Parameters) 
{
   System.Net.WebRequest req = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(URI);
   req.Proxy = new System.Net.WebProxy(ProxyString, true);
   req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
   req.Method = "POST";
   byte [] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Parameters);
   req.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
   System.IO.Stream os = req.GetRequestStream ();
   os.Write (bytes, 0, bytes.Length); //Push it out there
   os.Close ();
   System.Net.WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
   if (resp== null) return null;
   System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
   return sr.ReadToEnd().Trim();
}

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Answer 1

Just take that string you are returning and do this...

string result = HttpPost(url, parameters);
XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.LoadXml(result);

or in your HttpPost method..

var stream = resp.GetResponseStream();
XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.Load(stream);

You can reference this link to parse the actual XML document