Irregular xml file processing

Question

I need to process information from an XML-like file. Does anyone know some library/inbuild class (preferably c#) which might be useful to deal with that type of document (with not much effort) ?

Below is a piece of the XML :

<query>
  <type id="excel" />
  <ids>
    <id value="47" />
    <id value="2067" />
    <id value="247" />
    <id value="329" />
    <id value="19" />
    <id value="485" />
    <id value="148" />
    <id value="203" />
    <id value="219" />
    <id value="1503" />
    <id value="7318" />
  </ids>
  <period value="Monthly" />
  <start month="01" year="1990" />
  <end month="12" year="2015" />
</query>

Answer 1

Welcome to StackOverflow :D

There are 2 tools that should help you in dealing with it :

• XSD.EXE will generate a schema and classes that you can add to your project
• XSD2Code will generate classes from a schema as well as Serialize/Deserialize methods

Suggestion :

Use XSD.EXE to generate your schema then use XSD2Code to generate classes from that schema.

Both tools are free,

The first one you access it through the Developer Command Line :

xsd file.xml

The second one is a Visual Studio add-in : (tutorial on their site)

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Answer 2

This appears to be a perfectly valid XML file.

There are System.Xml.XmlDocument class and System.Xml.Linq.XDocument class, both deal with parsing (and constructing) XML.

You can also build a class model and then use XmlSerializer class to deserialize the xml into a class hierarchical model instance.