c# - extract values from Xml File -

i trying extract following values xml file: - - xml file represented follow:

 <envelope_content>    <documents>     <document>       <idx>1529</idx>        <entity_priority>5</entity_priority>        <cld_cod>magazine</cld_cod>        <cld_desc>revues, magazine</cld_desc>        <category>other</category>        <tif_filename>revues, magazine_1529_si.tif</tif_filename>        <comment />        <reject_messages />        <pages>        <page>          <pagidx>3375</pagidx>           <position>1</position>           <tifname>87771593-2fd4-4803-8736-e2c1a898a96b_002.tif</tifname>           <jpegname>87771593-2fd4-4803-8736-e2c1a898a96b_001.jpg</jpegname>         </page>        <page>         <pagidx>3376</pagidx>          <position>2</position>          <tifname>87771593-2fd4-4803-8736-e2c1a898a96b_004.tif</tifname>          <jpegname>87771593-2fd4-4803-8736-e2c1a898a96b_003.jpg</jpegname>        </page>       <page>         <pagidx>3377</pagidx>          <position>3</position>          <tifname>87771593-2fd4-4803-8736-e2c1a898a96b_006.tif</tifname>          <jpegname>87771593-2fd4-4803-8736-e2c1a898a96b_005.jpg</jpegname>        </page>       <page>         <pagidx>3378</pagidx>          <position>4</position>          <tifname>87771593-2fd4-4803-8736-e2c1a898a96b_008.tif</tifname>          <jpegname>87771593-2fd4-4803-8736-e2c1a898a96b_007.jpg</jpegname>        </page>       </pages>      </document>     </documents>  </envelope_content> 

i using following c#code extract values

string xmltext = file.readalltext(f); xmldocument doc = new xmldocument(); doc.loadxml(xmltext); xmlnodelist parentnode = doc.getelementsbytagname("document");  list<string> p = new list<string>(); string classe = ""; foreach (xmlnode childrennode in parentnode) {      classe = childrennode.selectsinglenode("cld_cod").innertext;   }//end foreach 

i managed extract value cld_cod can't manage extract values in "tifname"

how can iterate through nodes extract them?

thank you.

first of all, lot easier newer xml api linq-2-xml (xlinq).

var root = xelement.parse(xmltext);  // or directly .load(filename)  list<string> tifnames = root.descendants("tifname").select(e => e.value);