Read xml & create directory C#

Question

User1954082887 posted

<City title="CityOne">
  <Companies title="Comp1">
    <Company>A</Company>
    <Company>P</Company>
    <Company>R</Company>
  </Companies>
  <Companies title="Comp2">
    <Company>D</Company>
    <Company>F</Company>
    <Company>H</Company>
  </Companies>
</City>

Like first create folder CityOne then under that two folders Comp1 & Comp2. Then under them respective folders A,P,R (under Comp1) D,F,H (under Comp2).

Please let me know how to do the same in C#

Answer 1

User1557244751 posted

Try below code

var doc = XDocument.Parse("XML string").Descendants("City")
                .Select(x => new
                {
                    Title = x.Attribute("title").Value,
                    Companies = new
                    {
                        Title = x.Descendants("Companies").Select(y => new
                        {
                            Title = y.Attribute("title").Value,
                            Name = y.Descendants("Company").Select(z => z.Value).ToList()
                        }).ToList()
                    }
                }).ToList();
            

Above code is to read XML string and put it in a variable

Now below use below code to create directories

var basePath = @"c:/temp/";

            foreach (var item in doc)
            {
                var baseDirPath = Path.Combine(basePath + item.Title);
                Directory.CreateDirectory(baseDirPath);
                foreach (var itm in item.Companies.Title)
                {
                    var innerPath = Path.Combine(item.Title, itm.Title);
                    Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(basePath, innerPath));
                    foreach (var i in itm.Name)
                    {
                        Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(basePath, innerPath, i));
                    }
                }
            }

variable basePath is used to point base directory from where folder will be created.

Answer 2

User1954082887 posted

very efficient approach Thanks Vijay