I have a project where i read XML that was exported from another system. The XML looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><xmlimexport>
<companydata/>
<articles/>
<customers/>
<suppliers/>
<orders>
<order>
<atOrder>
<OOI_HEAD_DOCUMENT_NUMBER>12345</OOI_HEAD_DOCUMENT_NUMBER>
**... more rows ...**
</atOrder>
<rows>
<row><OOI_ROW_ARTICLE_NUMBER>12345</OOI_ROW_ARTICLE_NUMBER><OOI_ROW_ARTICLE_TEXT>SuperDuperArticleName</OOI_ROW_TEXT>**... more data...**</row>
</rows>
</order>
</orders>
<bests/>
<invoices/>
<supplierinvoices/>
<pricelists/>
<parcels/>
</xmlimexport>
So what i do is load the path to the XML file then:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
// Load xml file
doc.Load(xmlFile);
// Read order data
XmlNodeList orderList = doc.GetElementsByTagName("order");
foreach (XmlElement order in orderList)
{
try
{
// Read atOrder data (single node)
XmlNode atOrder = order.SelectSingleNode("atOrder");
// Read article data (one or many nodes)
XmlNodeList articles = order.GetElementsByTagName("row");
// Create a order
Order customerOrder = new Order();
Then read data with:
customerOrder.CUS_ID = Convert.ToInt32(atOrder.SelectSingleNode("OOI_HEAD_DOCUMENT_NUMBER").InnerText);
But since it can be both Strings, Booleans, Datetime, Date and INT in those fields i find myself having to use Convert.
very much, is this the proper way to do this or should i use a different approach?