Reading and querying XML data is good with Link to XML in C#. LINQ to XML provides an in-memory XML programming interface that leverages the .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) Framework.

Documentation and examples of how to use it are published at  LINQ to XML (C#), but in this post I post down useful for me snippets.

First variable is a filepath.

  string filepath = @"c:\users\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\MyXMLReader\ readxml\listfeed.xml"; 

 

1. Read and query Read via XDocument

In case of XDocument you load all the nodes of XML-file. To get the top-level node you should use Root. You can add where clause according to values of neighborhood elements.

            var xml = XDocument.Load(filepath, LoadOptions.None); 
            Console.WriteLine(DateTime. Today); 
            var query = from c in xml.Root.Descendants("item") 
                    where (DateTime)c.Element("pubDate") > DateTime.Parse("17.07.2017 0:00:00") 
                    select c; 

            
            foreach (XElement title in query) 
            { 
                Console.WriteLine(title. Element("pubDate").Value + " : " + title.Element("title").Value); 
            }

 

 

2. Read and query XML via XElement

In case of reading via XElement you can get non-root nodes. You may apply filters only to attribute values.

            XElement xelm = XElement.Load(filepath); 
            IEnumerable<XElement> ititles = from el in xelm.Elements() 
                                          select el; 
            foreach (XElement tt in ititles) 
            { 
                Console.WriteLine(tt.Element(" pubDate").Value + " : " + tt.Element("title").Value); 
            }