Summary How to use the Item property in XmlTextReader?

Like the GetAttribute method you can use the Item property get the attribute value from an XML element. The Item property can be used on the following forms:

• Item[string]
• Item[int]
• Item[string, string]

The first method accepts the name of the attribute. The second one accepts an index starting with 0. The third one takes the name of the attribute and the namespace URI of the attribute. Here is a small example.

Output: Item with integer: 0 Item with string: 0 Item with integer: 1 Item with string: 1 Item with integer: 2 Item with string: 2 Item with integer: 3 Item with string: 3 Item with integer: 4 Item with string: 4

Additional information

<%@ import namespace="System.Xml" %> <%@ page language="C#" debug="true"%> <script runat="server"> void page_load(object sender, System.EventArgs e){ XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(Server.MapPath("XmlTextReaderWithItem.xml")); // Get Rid of xml declaration xmlReader.MoveToContent(); while(xmlReader.Read()) { if(xmlReader.HasAttributes){ Response.Write("Item with integer: "+xmlReader[0~ + "/n"); Response.Write("Item with string: "+xmlReader["ID"~ + "/n"); } } xmlReader.Close(); } </script>

Further additional information

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