Dandraka.XmlUtilities 1.1.0

XmlUtilities

An XmlSlurper implementation for .Net. The idea came from Groovy's XmlSlurper which is hugely useful.

What this does, is convert a piece of xml, e.g.

<card xmlns="http://businesscard.org">
   <name>John Doe</name>
   <title>CEO, Widget Inc.</title>
   <email>john.doe@widget.com</email>
   <phone>(202) 456-1414</phone>
   <logo url="widget.gif"/>
 </card>

to a C# object, e.g.

card.name
card.title
card.email
card.phone
card.logo.url

This is done without any need to declare the type (it actually uses System.Dynamic.ExpandoObject behind the scenes).

Under the Release tab you can find the binaries to download.

Usage:

using Dandraka.XmlUtilities;

public void PrintXmlContents1()
{
	string xml = "<book id=\"bk101\" isbn=\"123456789\"><author>Gambardella, Matthew</author><title>XML Developer Guide</title></book>";
	var book = XmlSlurper.ParseText(xml);

	// that's it, now we have everything
	Console.WriteLine("id = " + book.id);
	Console.WriteLine("isbn = " + book.isbn);
	Console.WriteLine("author = " + book.author);
	Console.WriteLine("title = " + book.title);
}

public void PrintXmlContents2()
{
	string xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>" +
				 "<nutrition>" +
				 "	<food>" +
				 "		<name>Avocado Dip</name>" +
				 "		<mfr>Sunnydale</mfr>" +
				 "		<carb>2</carb>" +
				 "		<fiber>0</fiber>" +
				 "		<protein>1</protein>" +
				 "	</food>" +
				 "	<food>" +
				 "		<name>Bagels, New York Style </name>" +
				 "		<mfr>Thompson</mfr>" +
				 "		<carb>54</carb>" +
				 "		<fiber>3</fiber>" +
				 "		<protein>11</protein>" +
				 "	</food>" +
				 "	<food>" +
				 "		<name>Beef Frankfurter, Quarter Pound </name>" +
				 "		<mfr>Armitage</mfr>" +
				 "		<carb>8</carb>" +
				 "		<fiber>0</fiber>" +
				 "		<protein>13</protein>" +
				 "	</food>" +
				 "</nutrition>";
	var nutrition = XmlSlurper.ParseText(xml);

	// since many food nodes were found, a list was generated and named foodList (common name + "List")
	Console.WriteLine("name1 = " + nutrition.foodList[0].name);
	Console.WriteLine("name2 = " + nutrition.foodList[1].name);
}

Releases:

The first production-ready release was uploaded. Please see the release page for a known bug.

Note:

Although not required by the license, the author kindly asks that you share any improvements you made.