Reading attribute values with XmlReader

Get a Single, Named Attribute

Use XmlTextReader.GetAttribute (MSDN)

case XmlNodeType.Element:  Console.WriteLine(textReader.Name);  Console.WriteLine(textReader.Value);  Console.WriteLine(textReader.GetAttribute("currency"));

One nice feature of this function: it will not cause an Exception if the attribute is not defined - it will simply return Null.

Get All the Attributes

Use XmlTextReader.MoveToAttribute (MSDN)

Use the AttributeCount property in combination with MoveToAttribute:

case XmlNodeType.Element:  Console.WriteLine(textReader.Name);  Console.WriteLine(textReader.Value);  for (int attInd = 0; attInd < textReader.AttributeCount; attInd++){      textReader.MoveToAttribute( attInd );      Console.WriteLine(textReader.Name);      Console.WriteLine(textReader.Value);  }  textReader.MoveToElement(); 

You could change the loop condition a bit so that it also iterates through attributes:

while (textReader.MoveToNextAttribute() || textReader.Read()){      switch (textReader.NodeType)     {         case XmlNodeType.Element:             Console.WriteLine(textReader.Name);             Console.WriteLine(textReader.Value);             break;         //...         case XmlNodeType.Attribute:             //use textReader.Name and textReader.Value here for attribute name and value             break;    }}

MoveToNextAttribute method advances reader to the next attribute in current element or returns false if it cannot do so.