Looping through an XML document

The best thing for you is to use the Xml namespace. In the beginning of your file include:

using System.Xml;

Then you can use the power of the XmlDocument and XmlNode classes. This is a huge area, so I will just tell you that you can use for example the Load method of the XmlDocument to load the whole document.

You can start your investigation of the Xml namespace from here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemxmlxmldocumentclasstopic.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemxmlxmlnodeclasstopic.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemxml.asp

Ok,
So, I kinda figured out how to recursively traverse through all the elements in the given XML.  Now, I'm wanting to display that using a treeview control.  The code below works fine but it displays the results as follows:

+Name
+Address
+Sector
+Departments
  +Sales
    +President
      +FirstName
      +LastName
      +Age

If I expand the Name node, I get the value " = 'x' " which is fine.  To see the value of the FirstName for the node President, I would have to expand that node.  How would I make it such that it will display:

Name = 'X'
Address = 'Y'
Sector = 'z'
+ President
  - FirstName = "John"
  - LastName = "Doe"


The XML document looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Company>
<name>x</name>
<address>y</address>
<sector>z</sector>
<Departments>
<Sales>
<President>
<FirstName>Peter</FirstName>
<LastName>Pan</LastName>
<Age>45</Age>
</President>
<VP>
<FirstName>John</FirstName>
<LastName>Doe</LastName>
<Age>35</Age>
</VP>
</Sales>
</Departments>
</Company>

private void frmTest_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
XmlDocument Doc = new XmlDocument();
Doc.Load(@"C:\test.xml");
XmlNodeList nodeList = Doc.SelectNodes("/Company");
foreach(XmlNode oNode in nodeList)
{
    DisplayNode(oNode, tview.Nodes);      
}
}

private void DisplayNode(XmlNode i_Node, TreeNodeCollection t_Nodes)
{
    string Text = "";
    foreach (XmlNode node in i_Node.ChildNodes)
    {                              
       if(node.Value != null)
            Text = " = '" + node.Value + "'";                              
       else if(node.Attributes != null && node.Attributes.Count > 0)
            Text = node.Attributes[0].Value;
       else
             strText = node.Name;

       TreeNode myNode = new TreeNode(strText);
       t_Nodes.Add(myNode);
       ProcessNode(node, myNode.Nodes);
}
}

TheAvenger..... Thanks for the tip.

I tried the sample from the microsoft site.  I used my XML document and it pretty much does what my code above does.  What I'm attempting to do is that if a node doesn't have any child nodes, display its name followed by its value.  For example:

for the element:

<name>x</name>, I want to display name='x'

and for the nested elements:

<Departments>
<Sales>
<President>
<FirstName>Peter</FirstName>
<LastName>Pan</LastName>
</President>
</Sales>
</Departments>

I want to display
-Departments
....-Sales
......-President
..........FirstName = 'Peter'
..........LastName = 'Pan'

What my code and the sample from microsoft is doing the following:
-Departments
.....-Sales
.......-President
.........-FirstName
.............Peter
.........-LastName
.............Pan

I've been trying for the last day and half, but no success yet.  Any suggestions?

have you tried something like:

XmlNode node = ....;  // Find the node or go over them recursively

if (node.ChildNodes.Count == 0)
  tree.Add (node.Value);

I am not sure the names of all these properties are correct, but this is the idea and you can find more on the link I gave you.