How to parse an xml response from a post in vb.net - asp.net

Question

I am posting to a website to get data back. The site returns it as an xml. I am able to get the data into a string. But what i really want to do is to have each item in the xml in a different string field.
Sub lookup(ByVal Source As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
Dim wData As String
wData = WRequest("http://PostToThisSite.com", "POST","str=31&Password=pn&UserID=Q&Postcode="+txtPcode.Text)
Response.Write(wData)
End Sub
Function WRequest(URL As String, method As String, POSTdata As String) As String
Dim responseData As String = ""
Try
Dim hwrequest As Net.HttpWebRequest = Net.Webrequest.Create(URL)
hwrequest.Accept = "*/*"
hwrequest.AllowAutoRedirect = true
hwrequest.UserAgent = "http_requester/0.1"
hwrequest.Timeout = 60000
hwrequest.Method = method
If hwrequest.Method = "POST" Then
hwrequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
Dim encoding As New Text.ASCIIEncoding() 'Use UTF8Encoding for XML requests
Dim postByteArray() As Byte = encoding.GetBytes(POSTdata)
hwrequest.ContentLength = postByteArray.Length
Dim postStream As IO.Stream = hwrequest.GetRequestStream()
postStream.Write(postByteArray, 0, postByteArray.Length)
postStream.Close()
End If
Dim hwresponse As Net.HttpWebResponse = hwrequest.GetResponse()
If hwresponse.StatusCode = Net.HttpStatusCode.OK Then
Dim responseStream As IO.StreamReader = _
New IO.StreamReader(hwresponse.GetResponseStream())
responseData = responseStream.ReadToEnd()
End If
hwresponse.Close()
Catch e As Exception
responseData = "An error occurred: " & e.Message
End Try
Return responseData
End Function
The above code works and writes out a line...
Some Road City LU1 5QG
The Xml being returned is ..
<Address xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://site.co.uk/">
<strOrganisation />
<strProperty />
<strStreet>Some Road</strStreet>
<strLocality />
<strTown>City</strTown>
<strCounty />
<strPostcode>LU1 5QG</strPostcode>
<strDPS />
I want to be able to split these fields and set them to different text boxes on the page...help?

Answer 1

Load the xml string into an XmlDocument and extract the values with XPath:
Dim doc = new XmlDocument()
doc.LoadXml(yourXmlString)
Dim nsm = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable)
nsm.AddNamespace("a", "http://site.co.uk/")
txtStreet.Text = doc.SelectSingleNode("/a:Address/a:strStreet", nsm).InnerText
Here's a working snippet:
Dim doc = New XmlDocument()
doc.LoadXml("<Address xmlns:xsd=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"" xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"" xmlns=""http://site.co.uk/""><strOrganisation /> <strProperty /> <strStreet>Some Road</strStreet> <strLocality /> <strTown>City</strTown> <strCounty /> <strPostcode>LU1 5QG</strPostcode><strDPS /></Address>")
Dim nsm = New XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable)
nsm.AddNamespace("a", "http://site.co.uk/")
Dim streetValue = doc.SelectSingleNode("/a:Address/a:strStreet", nsm).InnerText
Some things to note:
For XPath lookups, if your xml has a namespace you'll need to add it to an
XmlNameSpaceManager created from your XmlDocument's NameTable.
If you don't want to
bother with that, you can walk the node collections manually via
doc.ChildNodes[0].ChildNodes[0] etc.

Answer 2

Or try this, which is what I believe the author was asking.
' Use XML Reader
Dim xmlDoc = New XmlDocument
Dim xmlNode As Xml.XmlNode
xmlDoc.LoadXml(strResponse)
xmlNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//" + "strStreet")
If Not xmlNode Is Nothing Then
Dim Street = xmlNode.InnerText
End If