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XML question

I have this in a string:

<Hello Value="Test">Something></Hello><Hello Value="Test2">Something2></Hello>

How can I parse each Hello-Element? So first the first Hello, then the second Hello in XML?

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seenuforall

why do you use one more close > symbol after something?.

check the following code
using System;
using System.Xml;

namespace ReadXMLfromFile
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Class1.
/// </summary>
class Class1
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader ("books.xml");
while (reader.Read())
{
switch (reader.NodeType)
{
case XmlNodeType.Element: // The node is an element.
Console.Write("<" + reader.Name);
Console.WriteLine(">");
break;
case XmlNodeType.Text: //Display the text in each element.
Console.WriteLine (reader.Value);
break;
case XmlNodeType.EndElement: //Display the end of the element.
Console.Write("</" + reader.Name);
Console.WriteLine(">");
break;
}
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}

kaufmed

You can create an XmlDocument object and then load your text as xml and use an XPath query to select the appropriate nodes:

XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument;
XmlNodeList nodes;

xdoc.LoadXml(your_string);
nodes = xdoc.SelectNodes("//Hello");

foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
{
Console.Writeline(node.InnerText);
Console.WriteLine(node.Attributes[0].InnerText);
}

The only not I would point out is that you technically don't have valid XML since there is no root node in our example. I wrapped your data in a element and was able to display the data with the above code.