XML Property 'InnerText' is WriteOnly when trying to read attribute value

Question

I'm getting a "Property 'InnerText' is WriteOnly" error when trying to read an attribute value

Here's my XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<products>
    <product ID="11837">
        <price currency="EUR">75.29</price>
        <properties>
            <property name="brand">
                <value></value>
            </property>
    </properties>
<variations/>
</product>
</products>

To extract the price I do:

node.SelectSingleNode("price").InnerText

which returns "75.29"

But when I do:

node.Attributes("ID").InnerText

I get the error:

Property 'InnerText' is WriteOnly

I don't see any reason why it's write-only and don't know how I can change it so I can read the value.

Answer 1

It's a fact of the implementation of XmlAttribute that it only supports writing to its InnerText property. You don't "change it" so that you can read the value - you use the Value property:

Gets or sets the value of the node.

Alternatively, you can access the value via InnerText if you cast the XmlAttribute as an XmlNode (its base class).