XML to List

Ive been trying to figure out an easy way to go from XML to List. Originally I wrote my program to use properties files like in JAVA to avoid XML but that lead to some restrictions later on.

Below is the XML file I am working with. What I would like to do is go to the <email> section and add every individual value for each <address> within <email> to a list object. I managed to get the list of values but in a single string of text that I would need to parse again, there has to be an easier way to get this to a list. I also tried looking online but I cant find an explanation on how to move from XML to list easily.

Code:

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<config>
        <settings>
                <configName></configName>
                <fileLocation></fileLocation>
                <exit></exit>
        </settings>
        <sendMail>
                <address></address>
        </sendMail>
        <email>
                <address></address>
                <address></address>
                <address></address>
                <address></address>
        </email>
        <ccemail>
                <address></address>
                <address></address>
                <address></address>
                <address></address>
        </ccemail>
        <keywords>
                <value></value>
                <value></value>
                <value></value>
        </keywords>
</config>

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Ok I got a little bit farther with the following code

Code:

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            List<string> emails = new List<string>();

            XDocument derps = XDocument.Load("config.xml");

            foreach (var derp in derps.Descendants("email"))
            {
               
            }

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Basically if I point at the beginning of the foreach loop the derp contains the following:

Code:

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<email>
  <address>moo@moo.com</address>
  <address>moo@moo.com</address>
  <address>moo@moo.com</address>
  <address>moo@moo.com</address>
</email>

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Unfortunately I cant for the life of me find a way to take that and push it into a list.

Try this:

Code:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml;

namespace Email
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Load in the xml
            XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
            doc.Load("email.xml");

            //Prepare the list
            List<string> emails = new List<string>();

            //Use XPath to get the nodes of interest
            XmlNodeList addresses = doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("/config/email/address");

            //parse the addresses and put them into the list
            foreach (XmlNode address in addresses)
            {
                emails.Add(address.InnerText);
            }
        }
    }
}

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OR... using LINQ:

Code:

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using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Linq;
...
public List<string> GetEmailAddresses()
{
    using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("config.xml"))
    {
        return
        (
            from
                e in XDocument.Load(reader).Element("config").Element("email").Elements()
            select
                e.Value
        ).ToList();
    }
}

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I read about LINQ and using that to achieve the process but couldn't quite figure it out. I managed to figure it out by using NextSibling and just knowing the position of the nodes in my XML file which I definitely do not like doing. I will try implementing what you have, looks a lot cleaner and easier to understand.

Code:

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            XmlNode node = xmlDoc.DocumentElement.FirstChild.NextSibling;
            foreach (XmlNode child in node.ChildNodes)
            {
                eD.Add(child.InnerText);
            }

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