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Custom Workflow to read Multiple Lines of text field

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Posted on by Pete_N 1,703

CRM 2016

I have a custom entity that i import various XML file data into.  I need to write a workflow to deal with he data, however I need to read the xml data to determine if certain keywords are there,  I suppose a simple function would be the best way, but how to read that xml data and  return the  position or just a Boolean / Bit

can anyone make any suggestion for me to look at ?

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    a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hello,

    I believe XmlDocument is the way to go - stackoverflow.com/.../read-a-xml-from-a-string-and-get-some-fields-problems-reading-xml

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    Pete_N 1,703 on at

    Hey Andrew,

    Thanks for that though to be fair .. I'm still a little confused. Each of the xml files we receive has a value in the encoding which determines which type of file it is and thus I know what processing to perform.

    i was hoping that there would be a simple solution  to just call the field up and search for the value ie

    line in xml data

    ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?

    could a 'query by attribute'  with the 'add range value' being for instance 'ISO-8859' would that work being only a partial value within the attribute ?

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    imayur 630 on at

    Hi,

    You can use XDocument in custom workflow activity for XML manipulations. Linq queries can be applied on Xdocument to get the desired XML nodes to retrieve or manipulate it.

    Here are some examples of Xdocument manipulations

    Convert valid xml string  to Xdocument

    XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);

    Find and Assign new Value

    xDoc.Descendants("parenttag").Elements("childtag").Single().SetAttributeValue("Value", "22")

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