This article and the
attached source code shows how to parse XML documents using .NET XML class
library classes.
The application reads
the XML file and then associates the xml tags to variables which are then
displayed in a message box.
The namespace
System.Xml would be the only additional namespace that we would be using.
Start of by
initializing a new instance of the XmlDocument class.
Private xDoc As XmlDocument
= New XmlDocument().
Next use the load
method to load the XML document from the specified stream.
xDoc.Load("sampleXML.xml").
Use the method
GetElementsByTagName() to obtain the addresses of a collection of elements that
match the specified name.
Private name As XmlNodeList
= xDoc.GetElementsByTagName("myName").
Private age As XmlNodeList
= xDoc.GetElementsByTagName("myAge").
XmlNodeList
represents an ordered collection of nodes.
Display the results
in a message box.
MessageBox.Show("Name: " & name(0).InnerText).
InnerText will return
the concatenated values of the node and all its children.