Read XML File in C#.NET

First create your XML file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<customers>

  <customer age="19" gender="female">

    <name>Kevin Anders</name>

    <phone>555.555.5555</phone>

  </customer>

  <customer age="22" gender="male">

    <name>Staci Richard</name>

    <phone>555.122.1552</phone>

  </customer>

</customers>

customers - Root element

customer - Node element

age, gender - Node attributes

name, phone - TextNode

Below method will read the XML documents each attribute and the elements.

 private void readXMLNodes()

    {

        //Create XML document object

        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

        doc.Load(Server.MapPath("~/XMLFile.xml"));

        //get the node list

        XmlNodeList customers = doc.SelectNodes("//customer");

        foreach (XmlNode customer in customers)

        {

            //Display the text in each element.

            Response.Write("Name: " + customer["name"].InnerText +" - "+"Phone: "+customer["phone"].InnerText);

            Response.Write("<br/>");

            //Display the text in each attribute.

            Response.Write("Gender: "+customer.Attributes["gender"].Value.ToString());

            Response.Write("<br/>");

            Response.Write("Age: "+customer.Attributes["age"].Value.ToString());

            Response.Write("<br/>");

            Response.Write("<br/>");

          

        }

    }

Out put:

Name: Kevin Anders - Phone: 555.555.5555
Gender: female
Age: 19

Name: Staci Richard - Phone: 555.122.1552
Gender: male
Age: 22