Parsing Campaign Event Resource XML file

[AshwinY]

Hi,

      How to parse the Campaign Event Resource XML file using c# in order to retrive all the <EmailAddress>values@values.com</EmailAddress> node values...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <id>http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/campaigns/1113523964608/events/opens</id>
  <title type="text">Opens Events for Customer: ashwin@test.com, Campaign id: 1113523964608</title>
  <link href="opens" />
  <link href="opens" rel="self" />
  - <author>
    <name>ashwin@test.com</name>
  </author>
  <updated>2013-05-27T12:39:18.624Z</updated>
  <link href="/ws/customers/ashwin%40test.com/campaigns/1113523964608/events/opens" rel="first" />
  <link href="/ws/customers/ashwin%40test.com/campaigns/1113523964608/events/opens" rel="current" />
  - <entry>
    <id>http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/events/opens/1113523964608,64,1369309885000</id>
    <title type="text">Email Open Event for Customer: ashwin%40test.com, Campaign: http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/campaigns/1113523964608</title>
    <updated>2013-05-23T11:51:25.000Z</updated>
    - <author>
      <name>Constant Contact</name>
    </author>
    - <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">
      - <OpenEvent xmlns="http://ws.test.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/events/opens/1113523964608,64,1369309885000">
        - <Contact id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/contacts/64">
          <EmailAddress>hanumantharaotvs@test.com</EmailAddress>
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/ashwin%40test.com/contacts/64" rel="self" />
        </Contact>
        - <Campaign id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/campaigns/1113523964608">
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/ashwin%40test.com/campaigns/1113523964608" rel="self" />
          <Name>2013-05-23T09:04:51.7031250Z</Name>
        </Campaign>
        <EventTime>2013-05-23T11:51:25.000Z</EventTime>
      </OpenEvent>
    </content>
  </entry>
  - <entry>
    <id>http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/events/opens/1113523964608,46,1369300552000</id>
    <title type="text">Email Open Event for Customer: ashwin%40test.com, Campaign: http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/campaigns/1113523964608</title>
    <updated>2013-05-23T09:15:52.000Z</updated>
    - <author>
      <name>Constant Contact</name>
    </author>
    - <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">
      - <OpenEvent xmlns="http://ws.test.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/events/opens/1113523964608,46,1369300552000">
        - <Contact id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/contacts/46">
          <EmailAddress>dileep.pingeli@test.com</EmailAddress>
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/ashwin%40test.com/contacts/46" rel="self" />
        </Contact>
        - <Campaign id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/campaigns/1113523964608">
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/ashwin%40test.com/campaigns/1113523964608" rel="self" />
          <Name>2013-05-23T09:04:51.7031250Z</Name>
        </Campaign>
        <EventTime>2013-05-23T09:15:52.000Z</EventTime>
      </OpenEvent>
    </content>
  </entry>
  - <entry>
    <id>http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/events/opens/1113523964608,2,1369300543000</id>
    <title type="text">Email Open Event for Customer: ashwin%40test.com, Campaign: http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/campaigns/1113523964608</title>
    <updated>2013-05-23T09:15:43.000Z</updated>
    - <author>
      <name>Constant Contact</name>
    </author>
    - <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">
      - <OpenEvent xmlns="http://ws.test.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/events/opens/1113523964608,2,1369300543000">
        - <Contact id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/contacts/2">
          <EmailAddress>dileep@test.com</EmailAddress>
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/ashwin%40test.com/contacts/2" rel="self" />
        </Contact>
        - <Campaign id="http://api.test.com/ws/customers/example%40example.com/campaigns/1113523964608">
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/ashwin%40test.com/campaigns/1113523964608" rel="self" />
          <Name>2013-05-23T09:04:51.7031250Z</Name>
        </Campaign>
        <EventTime>2013-05-23T09:15:43.000Z</EventTime>
      </OpenEvent>
    </content>
  </entry>
</feed>

[Shannon_W]

Hi,

As I mentioned, it might be better to switch to our newer .net sdk since it has some methods built in that I think will help (and it will be supported longer).  If you want to use the XML-based API and wrapper though, here is an example of how to parse XML with C#.

Best Regards,

Shannon W.

API Support Specialist