foreach (XElement fieldsElement in XElement.Load(@"C:\my.xml").Elements("fields"))

{

foreach (XElement fieldElement in fieldsElement.Elements("field"))

{

this.richTextBox1.AppendText(fieldElement.Attribute("number").Value + " :- " + fieldElement.Attribute("name").Value + "\n");

myField t = new myField(fieldElement.Attribute("number").Value, fieldElement.Attribute("name").Value, fieldElement.Attribute("type").Value);

foreach (XElement valueElement in fieldElement.Elements("value"))

{

this.richTextBox1.AppendText("\t" + valueElement.Attribute("enum").Value + " = " + valueElement.Attribute("description").Value + "\n");

t.addMapEntry(valueElement.Attribute("enum").Value, valueElement.Attribute("description").Value);

}

myFields.Add(t.tagNumber, t);

}

}

This is helpful in parsing following xml.

<fields>

  <field number='4' name='myenum' type='CHAR'>
   <value enum='1' description='val1' />
   <value enum='a' description='val2' />
   <value enum='c' description='val3' />
  </field>

</fields>

The parsing is done using the XElement class provided in linq to xml. This class is my favourite for parsing xmls. Very helful, useful and simple class.