Simple XML Parse in Visual Basic.net 2008

Sample xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

 <Items>

 <Item>

<Title>Product 1</Title>

 <Description>

<Category>Main</Category>

<Color>Red</Color>

<Type>Flag</Type>

<Text>A Nice red Flag</Text>

</Description>

<Date>02/20/2008</Date>

</Item>

</Items>

sample code Check out this code this will parse your xml file each node. change accordingly your problem
private void ParseXML()

        {

            XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

            doc.Load("C:\\text1.xml");

            XmlElement rootElement = doc.DocumentElement;

            foreach (XmlNode nd in rootElement.ChildNodes)

            {

                if (nd.ChildNodes.Count>0)

                    ParseSubNodes(nd);

            }

        }

        private void ParseSubNodes(XmlNode parentNode)

        {

            foreach (XmlNode cNode in parentNode.ChildNodes)

            {

                if (cNode.ChildNodes.Count == 1)

                {

                    if (cNode.ChildNodes[0].NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)

                        ParseSubNodes(cNode);

                    else

                    {

                        // MessageBox.Show(cNode.Name + "     " + cNode.InnerText);

                         // cNode.Name;
                         // cNode.Value;
                         // cNode.InnerText;    
                    }

                }

                else if(cNode.ChildNodes.Count>1)

                    ParseSubNodes(cNode);

            }

        }

Take a look at the DataSet.ReadXML method -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/360dye2a.aspx

It provides an easy way to read an XML file into a DataSet, and from there it should be fairly simple to insert into a database.

Wayne

AUmidh:
Thank you for the response
That looks promising but it also looks like C#?
I am coding in Visual Basic.net and I don;'t know what to do with that.

Your solution seems like it would work if it were only VB




webtubbs:
Thank you for the response
That also looked promising until I really looked at the code and ran it.
All that does it create an XML file with a table structure.  
It doesn't parse an xml file, it does read it "into" the table, but I think it is looking for that exact structure?

I really don't know how to modify that.

Wayne

Thank you.
I believe I will be able to parse from that.. looks a bit tough, but I think I'll get it now.