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Hi Everyone,

I have a web service that returns an xml string like this:
<USERS UserID="1" FirstName="Mark" LastName="Moeykens" CompanyName="Mark
Moeykens, Inc."/>

What is the best way to break this string apart to get the values out of it?

Thanks,
Mark Moeykens

You can wrap it into <?xml ...><root></root>, effectively creating a simple
XML document. Then you can feed the result to the XmlReader and access
attribute/values via DOM.

Quote:> Hi Everyone,

> I have a web service that returns an xml string like this:
> <USERS UserID="1" FirstName="Mark" LastName="Moeykens" CompanyName="Mark
> Moeykens, Inc."/>

> What is the best way to break this string apart to get the values out of
it?

> Thanks,
> Mark Moeykens

Wrapping it in <root/> doesn't make it an xml document -
its valid xml as is...

Use the System.XML.XmlDocument to load the xml, then refer
to the attributes in your node by using the
documentElement property of your XmlDocument, and reading
the values out of the ATtributes collection with
getNamedItem:

XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument();
myDoc.LoadXml(myInString);
string firstName =
myDoc.DocumentElement.Attributes.getNamedItem("FirstName");

etc...

Quote:>-----Original Message-----
>You can wrap it into <?xml ...><root></root>, effectively
creating a simple
>XML document. Then you can feed the result to the

XmlReader and access

Chuck,

When I looked in the help file I found that the getNamedItem returns a Node,
not a string.

I still apprecite your help.  Yeah, I didn't take the previous guy's advice.
What I ended up doing was reading the string into an xmlTextReader then
using xmlTextReader.GetAttribute("attribute name").

Mark