Parse xml without linq

Question

Hello,
Need to parse a single field of an xml document (without LINQ if possible)
I even tried to open it as string:
Dim fileReader As String = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("e:\file.xml")

All I need is to extract the data inside "Field_Name" tag:

<Field_Name type="SZ">Data to Extract</Field_Name>
You guys know any safe method to do so?
Thanks :)

Answer 1

You can also use Microsoft XML

 'Add reference To "Microsoft XML v6.0"   

At beginning

Imports MSXML2   

Test with XML file

        Dim dom As DOMDocument60 = New DOMDocument60()  
        Dim bRet As Boolean = dom.load("E:\Test.xml")  
        If bRet Then  
            Dim nodes As IXMLDOMNodeList = dom.childNodes  
            For i = 0 To nodes.length - 1  
                Dim node As IXMLDOMNode = nodes(i)  
                ProcessNode(node)  
            Next  
        End If  

Utility function, cannot post here (to be improved, I just did a quick test with 2 XML files...) : ProcessNode

Answer 2

If you hate LINQ, then see XPath:

Imports System.Xml.XPath  
. . .  
Dim xdoc = XDocument.Load("e:\file.xml")  
Dim extracted_data As String = xdoc.XPathSelectElement("//Field_Name[@type='SZ']").Value