Trying to iterate through XML files

I would like ask for some advice please, I am trying to create a program in C# but have the following problem. I am currently trying to loop through a batch of XML files that are stored in a folder. However, I just don't want to loop through the XML file name, as I need to check through all the nodes in each XML file(650 files) for certain values. I know how to loop through a specific Xml file but unsure of how to actually loop through all XML files to retrieve the values inside the values. For now, all I have is code to read through a specific XML file as shown below. I would be grateful for any assistance in this matter.

So what I understand is that you already have code that will traverse through a XML file, what you are looking for now is a way to traverse through the files of a particular. You should use System.IO.Directory.GetFiles() method to loop through each file and then use the existing method for traversing the XML file.

Thanks for the reply, I have tried the approach that you specified but it just reads through the one xml file and then that's it. Any futher assistance would be of a great help

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Originally Posted by Markyjj

Thanks for the reply, I have tried the approach that you specified but it just reads through the one xml file and then that's it. Any futher assistance would be of a great help

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Post your code that makes the GetFiles() call.

Hi again, sorry for the delayed reply, but please find below the code containing the GetFiles() call.

using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Xml;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace VoteProg_1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
string[] XFiles = Directory.GetFiles("C:\\Users\\Mark\\Documents\\VoteResults2", "*.xml");
XmlTextReader XReader = new XmlTextReader("C:\\Users\\Mark\\Documents\\VoteResults2\\result001.xml");





private void label1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
foreach (string fileName in XFiles)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(string.Format( "",fileName[1]));
// Add other code here





}



// foreach (string fileName in XFiles)
{


while (XReader.Read())
{
switch (XReader.NodeType)
{
case XmlNodeType.Element: // The node is an element.
textBox1.Text = XReader.Name.ToString();
break;
case XmlNodeType.Text: //Display the text in each element.
textBox1.Text = XReader.Value.ToString();
break;
case XmlNodeType.EndElement: //Display the end of the element.
textBox1.Text = XReader.Name.ToString();
break;
}
}

}



}

private void label13_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{



}






}
}

---EDIT---
Err... I just saw you had an foreach loop there,
But why are you refering to a single char in the fileName?
I think you meant to write

Code:

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doc.Load(fileName);

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You are specifically just reading one file with this

Code:

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doc.Load(string.Format( "",fileName[1]));

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What you need is a foreach loop :)

Code:

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foreach(string oneFile in fileName)
{
doc.Load(string.Format( "",oneFile));
}

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Sidenote, when declaring arrays, make it a habit to name them in plural, fileName becomes fileNames :)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Markyjj

Hi again, sorry for the delayed reply, but please find below the code containing the GetFiles() call.

using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Xml;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace VoteProg_1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
string[] XFiles = Directory.GetFiles("C:\\Users\\Mark\\Documents\\VoteResults2", "*.xml");
XmlTextReader XReader = new XmlTextReader("C:\\Users\\Mark\\Documents\\VoteResults2\\result001.xml");


}

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Also you are opening only one file result001.xml always with xmlreader but you need to loop through the XFile string array list and open one by one.

thanks for that, I have now used 'doc.Load(fileName);' in the code to load all the records into the Xml document. Do I now need to loop through all the nodes in the Xml document

Thanks