Tag Archives: XML

Manipulating XML Google Merchant Data using C# and LINQ

Posted on May 29, 2020 by

Receiving a Google Merchant Data feed (also known as a Google Product Feed) can be fairly easily manipulated on import time using a little C# and LINQ. The feed is basically a XML RSS 2.0 feed with some added properties … Continue reading →

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Remove duplicates from XML feed

Posted on April 1, 2020 by

Apparently XML isn’t dead yet, and today I received a Google Product Feed in the RSS 2.0 XML format. The feed was full of duplicates and my job is to remove them: As you can see, “Product 100” appears twice. … Continue reading →

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Deserialize XML array to string[] and how to allow JSON to be deserialized into the same POCO class

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

How do you deserialize the classic XML array to an string[] type? The XML representation of an array is a list of elements: And the MyArray would normally be deserialized to an annoying class: The solution is to use the … Continue reading →

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XElement get default values using extension methods

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

I often work with dynamic XML documents which might or might not contain the element, field or attribute that I am looking for. The Standard .NET XElement class is pretty strict (as it should be) and returns a null reference … Continue reading →

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Creating a tree like left menu in Sitecore using UserControls and C#

Posted on August 3, 2011 by

This post is a follow-up on the article on how to create a tree like left menu in Sitecore using XSLT. This time I will not use XSLT to create my left menu, but instead I will use C# and … Continue reading →

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