How would you compare two XML Documents?
Microsoft has an XML diff API that you can use. Unofficial NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/XMLDiffPatch.
xmldocument
What is the simplest way to get indented XML with line breaks from XmlDocument?
Based on the other answers, I looked into XmlTextWriter and came up with the following helper method: static public string Beautify(this XmlDocument doc) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings { Indent = true, IndentChars = ” “, NewLineChars = “\r\n”, NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Replace }; using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb, settings)) … Read more
Read XML Attribute using XmlDocument
XmlNodeList elemList = doc.GetElementsByTagName(…); for (int i = 0; i < elemList.Count; i++) { string attrVal = elemList[i].Attributes[“SuperString”].Value; }
SelectSingleNode returns null when tag contains xmlNamespace
You should use an XmlNamespaceManager in your call to SelectSingleNode(): XmlNamespaceManager ns = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmldoc.NameTable); ns.AddNamespace(“msbld”, “http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003”); XmlNode node = xmldoc.SelectSingleNode(“//msbld:Compile”, ns);
XDocument or XmlDocument
If you’re using .NET version 3.0 or lower, you have to use XmlDocument aka the classic DOM API. Likewise you’ll find there are some other APIs which will expect this. If you get the choice, however, I would thoroughly recommend using XDocument aka LINQ to XML. It’s much simpler to create documents and process them. … Read more