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This is a simple demonstration on XML Parsing. It’s a primitive knowledge and I added a drop down effect to make it looks much more attractive.

The Silverlight version can only load the XML from the resources. It’s because I don’t have IIS right now and I couldn’t solve the cross domain security problem (Better don’t waste too much time on that first). Enjoy it.

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Comparison

Flash implementation: 1 hour  
Silverlight implementation: 1 hour 30 minutes 
What’s the difference?

• XML Prasing: XML [AS3] vs XDocument [C#]

Source codes

•   Simple XML Parser [Flash 9, AS3] (26.9 KiB, 956 hits)
•   Simple XML Parser [Silverlight 2, C#] (94.6 KiB, 1,200 hits)

XML Prasing: XML [AS3] vs XDocument [C#]

XML is a very difficult topic in many languages, because there are dozen of methods to manipulate XML. If you want to learn something more, here is a good site: http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/?page=4. Anyway, let’s have a brief view how did I get all the titles from a RSS feed.

// AS3
// create a loader and load the XML
var loader : URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var request : URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, on_complete);
loader.load(request);

// after the request is completed
private function on_complete(e : Event):void{
	var loader:URLLoader = e.target as URLLoader;
	var xmlData : XML = new XML(loader.data);

	var titleList : XMLList = xmlData.channel.item.title;
	for(var i:int = 0; i < titleList.length(); i++){
		var node :XML =  titleList[i];
		// get the title
		var title:String = node.text();
	}
}

You may use LINQ query in C# and the data can be collected easily (if you really know how to use it.)

// C#
// url is the xml data from the xap resources
XDocument xDocument = XDocument.Load(url);
var v = from g in xDocument.Descendants("item")
        select new
        {
            title = g.Element("title").Value,
        };

foreach (var item in v)
{
    string title = item.title.Trim();
}