Parsing google feed with linq to xml
- by the_V
Hi
I'm trying to parse XML feed that I get via Google Contacts API with LINQ 2 XML. That's what feed looks like:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:gContact="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008" xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
<id>[email protected]</id>
<updated>2010-06-11T17:37:06.561Z</updated>
<category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact" />
<title type="text">My Contacts</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.google.com/" />
<link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/full" />
<link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#post" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/full" />
<link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/full/batch" />
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/full?max-results=25" />
<author>
<name>My NAme</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</author>
<generator version="1.0" uri="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds">Contacts</generator>
<openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults>
<openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
<openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
<entry>
<id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/base/0</id>
<updated>2010-01-26T20:34:03.802Z</updated>
<category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact" />
<title type="text">Contact name</title>
<link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#edit-photo" type="image/*" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/0/O-ydnzWMJcfZWqT-6gGetw" />
<link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo" type="image/*" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/0" />
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/full/0" />
<link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/full/0/1264538043802000" />
<gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other" address="someaddress@gmail.com" primary="true" />
</entry>
</feed>
I've tried a number of things with linq 2 sql, but they didn't work. Even this simple code snipped doesn't work:
using (FileStream stream = File.OpenRead("response.xml"))
{
XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(stream);
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(reader);
XElement feed = doc.Element("feed");
if (feed == null)
{
Console.WriteLine("feed not found");
}
XElement id = doc.Element("id");
if (id == null)
{
Console.WriteLine("id is null");
}
}
Problem is that both id and feed are null here. What wrong am I doing?
