How to read an XML Byte?

[trevorjdaniel]

Hello,

I am trying to work out how to read some xml that is being returned from an external URL.

Firstly, to get the XML response I have to send it some relevant information. I have done this with the following code:

Dim url = "http://XX.XX.XX.XX/test"
        Dim client As New WebClient

        client.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/xml")
        Dim sentXml As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(xml.OuterXml)
        Dim response As Byte() = client.UploadData(url, "POST", sentXml)

When I check Fiddler, I can see that well formed XML is being returned and looking at the above code it seems to be stored as a byte in "response"

But I cannot work out how to now read this XML and returns the values within it.

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Trev

 

[JohnH]

System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString method is the counterpart.

 

[trevorjdaniel]

Brilliant! that worked perfectly. I know have the response as a sting variable using :

Dim trev As String = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(response)

I now need to pull out some values.. for example there is a node in the XML like the following

<PDSM>1.23</PDSM>

How would I do that please? Am I correct to have put it in a string?

Thanks for your help!

Much appreciated!

Trev

 

[JohnH]

You can for example load a XDocument or XmlDocument and work with that.