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Why does getElementsByTagName shows error "is not a member of 'XDocument" in Visual Basic?

I've been watching a bunch of videos about how to read XMLs with Visual Basic and I believe I'm following the correct steps, but I keep getting the error

BC30456 getElementsByTagName is not a member of 'XDocument'

This is the code I have:

Dim document As New XDocument
Dim nodoLista As XmlNodeList
Dim nodo As XmlNode

document = XDocument.Load(path)
nodoLista = document.getElementsByTagName("Empresa")

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I've looked for a replacement, maybe the code is old and was updated, but can't find ANYTHING, not even a similar error. I've also tried SelectNodes, but same error appears. Also I have the imports system.xml btw.

Also tried

nodoLista = document.Elements("Empresa")

but I get the error

error

Solution

  • Based in your code seems like you wanted to code around Xml.XmlDocument instead of Xdocument as getElementsByTagName is a Function of Xml.XmlDocument (or its elements descendatnts) which return a XmlNodeList Here your code (modified):

    Dim document As New Xml.XmlDocument 
Dim nodoLista As Xml.XmlNodeList
Dim nodo As XmlNode

document.Load(path)
nodoLista = document.GetElementsByTagName("Empresa")