XML Iteration

[Larry Bud]

I have a client who is sending XML to us. Some of the data element
could be 5 or 6 levels deep. Some elements may be repeated more than
once for a given Master record. i.e.

row1
somedata
moredata
row2
somedata
moredata1
moredata2

What is the best .net method in traversing this data? xmlreader?
Dataset? Something I haven't though of? Tia.

 

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

The "traditional" way would be to load the Xml data into an instance of the
XmlDocument class and use XPATH expressions to query it. You could "try"
loading it into a DataSet with ReadXml but from your description it would
probably fail. You can also use LINQ to XML.
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