Generic XML parser in Silverlight 3.0

Question

Hi I am developing an application in Silverlight 3.0, I want to make a generic parser of XML in it, as on every call to webservice I am receiving a different XML, I want to make it generic so that I receive an XML in native datastructure of C#? Please help me out? like I am getting XML like this one time

<test>
 <node1></node1>
 <node2></node2>
</test>

and other time

<mytest>
 <application name="XYZ">My Application</application>
 <application name="ABC">My Application</application>
</mytest>

I want the generic parser, e.g. it makes some tree structure of whole XML

Answer 1

You can use .NET xml serialization.

Given the xml that looks like this

<TestObject>
    <FirstProperty>SomeValue</FirstProperty>
    <SecondProperty>17</SecondProperty>
</TestObject>

C# object

[Serializable]
public class TestObject
{
    public string FirstProperty { get; set; }
    public int SecondProperty { get; set; }
}

Here is the code to convert the xml to the object

string xml = @"<TestObject>
                    <FirstProperty>SomeValue</FirstProperty>
                    <SecondProperty>17</SecondProperty>
                </TestObject>";

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TestObject));

using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xml))
{
    using (XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(reader))
    {
        TestObject obj = serializer.Deserialize(xmlReader) as TestObject;
    }
}

Answer 2

I have found solution Generic XML parser works for me.