Read XML document by node type : Xml Node : XML C# Examples

    
using  System;
using  System.Xml;

class  MainClass
{
        static  void  Main(string[]  args)
        {
                int  DecCounter=0,  PICounter=0,  DocCounter=0,  CommentCounter=0,  ElementCounter=0,  AttributeCounter=0,  TextCounter=0,  WhitespaceCounter=0;
                XmlTextReader  reader  =  new  XmlTextReader(@"C:\books.xml");

                while  (reader.Read())
                {
                        XmlNodeType  type  =  reader.NodeType;  
                        switch  (type)  {
                                case  XmlNodeType.XmlDeclaration:
                                        DecCounter++;
                                        break;
                                case  XmlNodeType.ProcessingInstruction:
                                        PICounter++;
                                        break;
                                case  XmlNodeType.DocumentType:
                                        DocCounter++;
                                        break;
                                case  XmlNodeType.Comment:
                                        CommentCounter++;
                                        break;
                                case  XmlNodeType.Element:
                                        ElementCounter++;
                                        if  (reader.HasAttributes)
                                                AttributeCounter  +=  reader.AttributeCount;
                                        break;
                                case  XmlNodeType.Text:
                                        TextCounter++;
                                        break;
                                case  XmlNodeType.Whitespace:
                                        WhitespaceCounter++;
                                        break;
                        }                              
                }
                Console.WriteLine("White  Spaces:"  +WhitespaceCounter.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("Process  Instructions:"  +PICounter.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("Declaration:"  +DecCounter.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("White  Spaces:"  +DocCounter.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("Comments:"  +CommentCounter.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("Attributes:"  +AttributeCounter.ToString());
        }
}