XmlTextReader (.NET)

billy_bob_the_3rd · January 19th, 2005, 04:59 PM

Hi all,

I simply want to read from an xml document and output a subset of it to a string. That is, consider the following xml:

Code:

<animals>
    <fish type='water'>SwordFish</fish>
    <monkey type='land'>Ape</monkey>
</animals>

I use an XmlTextReader to read through this xml. When I read the <monkey> element I want to output the xml to a string so that my string will look like:

Code:

string = "<monkey type='land'>Ape</monkey>

When I use the ToString() method my string contains just the text value of the element (string = "Ape").

How can I get the actual xml?

Thanks!

billy_bob_the_3rd · January 20th, 2005, 11:46 AM

Actually, XmlTextReader has a method called ReadOuterXml() that does exactly this. What I meant to say was XPathDocument instead of XmlTextReader.