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From: mickieparis on 19 May 2010 18:21
Hello, I hope someone can help me. I need to load an xml element to a
dictionary using the attribute as the key. Here is a sample of the
xml.
<Colors>
....
<FlagColors>
<USA>
<red order="0"/>
<white order="1"/>
<blue order="2"/>
</USA>
</FlagColors>
</Colors>

I need a sorted list or a dictionary so the colors are in a specific
order. For example in the USA the colors need to be ordered red
first, white second and blue third. So I need to use the order
attribute as the key for the dictionary and the element value as the
value in the dictionary.

I've been playing around with no success. I hope someone knows how to
do this.

Thanks,
Michelle


From: Arne Vajhøj on 19 May 2010 20:24
On 19-05-2010 18:21, mickieparis wrote:
> Hello, I hope someone can help me. I need to load an xml element to a
> dictionary using the attribute as the key. Here is a sample of the
> xml.
> <Colors>
> ...
> <FlagColors>
> <USA>
> <red order="0"/>
> <white order="1"/>
> <blue order="2"/>
> </USA>
> </FlagColors>
> </Colors>
>
> I need a sorted list or a dictionary so the colors are in a specific
> order. For example in the USA the colors need to be ordered red
> first, white second and blue third. So I need to use the order
> attribute as the key for the dictionary and the element value as the
> value in the dictionary.
>
> I've been playing around with no success. I hope someone knows how to
> do this.

Given that keys seems to go 0..N then why not use List<> instead
of Dictionary<>?

Arne
From: Arne Vajhøj on 19 May 2010 20:34
On 19-05-2010 20:24, Arne Vajh�j wrote:
> On 19-05-2010 18:21, mickieparis wrote:
>> Hello, I hope someone can help me. I need to load an xml element to a
>> dictionary using the attribute as the key. Here is a sample of the
>> xml.
>> <Colors>
>> ...
>> <FlagColors>
>> <USA>
>> <red order="0"/>
>> <white order="1"/>
>> <blue order="2"/>
>> </USA>
>> </FlagColors>
>> </Colors>
>>
>> I need a sorted list or a dictionary so the colors are in a specific
>> order. For example in the USA the colors need to be ordered red
>> first, white second and blue third. So I need to use the order
>> attribute as the key for the dictionary and the element value as the
>> value in the dictionary.
>>
>> I've been playing around with no success. I hope someone knows how to
>> do this.
>
> Given that keys seems to go 0..N then why not use List<> instead
> of Dictionary<>?

Well if you want the Dictionary<> then here are some code:

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

namespace E
{
public class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string s = @"<Colors>
<FlagColors>
<USA>
<red order='0'/>
<white order='1'/>
<blue order='2'/>
</USA>
</FlagColors>
</Colors>";
XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(s);
Dictionary<int, string> dic =
doc.Element("Colors").Element("FlagColors").Element("USA").Elements().ToDictionary(elm
=> int.Parse(elm.Attribute("order").Value), elm => elm.Name.LocalName);
foreach(KeyValuePair<int, string> kvp in dic)
{
Console.WriteLine(kvp.Key + " = " + kvp.Value);
}
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}

Arne
From: mickieparis on 20 May 2010 09:08
Thanks so much Arne! I was using Root.Descendants() and it wasn't
picking up the elements. Now I know to
use .Element("whatever").Element("whatever")....Elements() to get to
the level of the elements I need to extract. Thanks again.

Michelle

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