basic-xml-parser

Basic C# .NET XML parser

Description:

This is a basic XML parser that reads XML from a file and turns it into a C# object. It is not very extensible and I have just implemented it to try and learn about how dynamic objects work in C#.

As of current it only supports a few features:

• Loading XML into a dynamic objects
• Querying the object by the . Member access operator
• Querying the object by the [int:index] operator

As of current there is no support for Attributes.

Install

Windows

git clone https://github.com/Wamadahama/basic-xml-parser.git

Open the .sln in Visual Studio and select Build and Run

Linux (.NET Core)

git clone https://github.com/Wamadahama/basic-xml-parser.git
cd basic-xml-parser
sh install-linux.sh

Use dotnet run to use.

Usage

File sample

This sample XML document will be used to demonstrate the features of the parser

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<sample>
  <foo>2</foo>
  <bar>3</bar>

  <foobar>
    <foo>bar</foo>
    <bar>foo</bar>
  </foobar>

  <foobarbazz>
    <foo>1</foo>
    <bar>2</bar>
    <bazz>3</bazz>
  </foobarbazz>

</sample>

Initialization

Add DynamicXmlObject.cs to your project (I have yet to make this into a class library because of the size)

and inlcude the Namespace with

using XmlParser;

Loading an XML file

  dynamic Test = new DynamicXmlObject(@"Path/To/File.xml");

Using . Member Access

  Console.WriteLine(Test.bar.ToString()); // => 3

Chained . Member Access

  Console.WriteLine(Test.foobar.foo); // => bar

Integer Index

  Console.WriteLine(Test.foobar[0].ToString()); // => bar

ToList

  List<string> Foobar = Test.foobar.ToList();
  Foobar.ForEach((elem) => { Console.WriteLine(elem.ToString()); }); // => bar\nfoo\n