LINQ to XML parse Attribute Values

In this post LINQ to XML parse Attribute Values, we shall see how to parse the values of Attributes from XML tags. In the post LINQ to XML parse XML Elements, we saw how to extract values from specific elements, here we shall see on how to extract the values associated with the attributes of the elements.

Assume that we have the following XML fragment

   <Employees>

 <Employee>

<Name>

<FirstName>Henry</FirstName>

<LastName>Ford</LastName>

  </Name>

<Age>65</Age>

<Department Name="Automobile" />

  </Employee>

  <Employee>

<Name>

<FirstName>Bill</FirstName>

<LastName>Gates</LastName>

</Name>

<Age>55</Age>
<Department Name="Software" />

  </Employee>

  </Employees>

  Now we will parse the XML and get the values of the Name attribute in the Department Tag.

XElement xEmp = XElement.Load(@"D:\Employees.xml");

var empNames = from emps in xEmp.Elements("Employee")

               select emps;

foreach (XElement empDetails in empNames)

{

    Response.Write("Name: " +  empDetails.Element("Name").Element("FirstName").Value + "</br>");

    Response.Write("Age: " + empDetails.Element("Age").Value + "</br>");

    Response.Write("Department: " + empDetails.Element("Department").Attribute("Name").Value + "</br></br>");

} 

  When this code is executed, the output will be

  

Name: Henry
Age: 65
Department: Automobile

Name: Bill
Age: 55
Department: Software

  That’s it we have parsed an XML fragment using LINQ to XML and extracted the attribute values for the attributes associated with the Element tags. 

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