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Need Help Reading an XML Document

I have this XML document and I need to read it, but I'm having trouble getting the nested information such as:

I want to read the <location> information into an array list for each Byte compare type ex ("office", "Quark")

<ByteCompareList>
<ByteCompareType>
<name>Office</name>
<ByteCompareLocations>
<Location>
<at>43</at>
<value>135</value>
</Location>
<Location>
<at>44</at>
<value>134</value>
</Location>
<returnFiletype>Access</returnFiletype>
</ByteCompareLocations>
<ByteCompareLocations>
<Location>
<at>32</at>
<value>243</value>
</Location>
<Location>
<at>33</at>
<value>255</value>
</Location>
<returnFiletype>Word</returnFiletype>
</ByteCompareLocations>
</ByteCompareType>
<ByteCompareType>
<name>Quark</name>
<ByteCompareLocations>
<Location>
<at>66</at>
<value>143</value>
</Location>
<Location>
<at>68</at>
<value>98</value>
</Location>
<returnFiletype>Quark Template</returnFiletype>
</ByteCompareLocations>
</ByteCompareType>
</ByteCompareList>

any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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vo1d

why do you wanna read that data again in a different logical format?
xmldocument manages the data with an internal tree.
so you would get into memory problems if you have large xml files.
you can work with the xmlnodelist, which references every location nodes you need.