Parsing XML in .NET

Let's say you have XML as


<root>
   <item>
      <name1>value1</name1>
      <name2>value2</name2>
      <name3>value3</name3>
   </item>
   <item>
      <name1>value1</name1>
      <name2>value2</name2>
   </item>
</root>


To parse it we use the .NET XmlDocument class:


// Create the XmlDocument object
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
// Load the Xml into the object
xmlDoc.Load(objResponse.GetResponseStream());
// Get the element like it was a path
XmlNode errorNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("root/item/name1");

if (errorNode != null)
{
litResult.Text = errorNode.InnerText;
return;
}