Following my question regarding a .NET YAML Library... as there doesn't seem to be great support for YAML in .NET, are there and good open source really simple .NET XML libraries. I just want something where I can pass it a section name and a key and it gives me the value as well as being able to give me a list of all the current sections and keys.
Also, preferably something with a license that allows it to be used commercially.
Can you use the 3.5 framework? Linq to XML is fantastic, and simple.
Can you use the 3.5 framework? Linq to XML is fantastic, and simple.
Sadly, no...the user base for my application is all XP SP2/3 and wouldn't have 3.5 installed by default. And for some reason I'm not able to require them to install the new framework...but I will definitely keep that in mind for future projects.
isn't the system.xml namespace suficient?
once i had to use it for the simple scenarios that you described and thought that it was a simple and efficient solutions.
take a look at this examples
Reading Node Trees with XmlNodeReader and the XML Document Object Model (DOM) Reference
Is XSLT / XPath out of the question? If so, have you considered JSON.Net?