How to get attribute values inside an XmlElement?

2.4k Views Asked by Darf Zon At 04 April 2025 at 12:12

I have an XmlElement containing this data:

<message from="[email protected]/admin" to="admin@hp63008-y57/Jabber.Net" type="groupchat" id="e83Dn-53" xmlns="jabber:client">
    <body>:d</body> 
    <x xmlns="jabber:x:event">
        <offline /> 
        <delivered /> 
        <displayed /> 
        <composing /> 
    </x>
    <delay stamp="2013-08-07T16:53:32.693Z" xmlns="urn:xmpp:delay" from="admin@hp63008-y57/Spark 2.6.3" /> 
    <x stamp="20130807T16:53:32" xmlns="jabber:x:delay" from="admin@hp63008-y57/Spark 2.6.3" /> 
</message>

I would like to get the attributes values stamp and from inside the delay element. I have tried several XPaths but I don't know exactly how to use it or if I have to declare a namespace.

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gunr2171 On 07 August 2013 at 18:19

Use XElement instead. This will save you a lot of time and effort.

XElement xmlRoot = XElement.Load("someFile.xml");
XElement xmlRoot = XElement.Parse("someXmlString");

string stampValue = xmlRoot
    .Element("delay")
    .Attribute("stamp")
    .Value;

string fromValue = xmlRoot
    .Element("delay")
    .Attribute("from")
    .Value;

If you have more than one element use Elements, but that should be the basics of what you need.

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