Extracting data from XML files

[ACTCMS]

I'm getting a bit fed up hacking into XML files using a sledgehammer and crowbar...

From a node something like this...

Code:

<PictureLibrary extensions="^.+\.(bmp|jpg|png|tiff|tif)$">
    <Directory name="Family-1">\\Sbs2003\Media\Video Clips And Photos\Family\</Directory>
    <Directory name="Family-2">\\Sbs2003\Media\Video Clips And Photos\Scans\</Directory>
  </PictureLibrary>

I'd like to extract the extensions value into a string, the Directory names into a list and the Directory values into a list. There must be a nice elegant way of doing it.

All suggestions greatfully accepted...

[sub]

Code:

// load list of root directories
            XmlNode librariesNode = SettingsHelper.GetInstance().GetSettingsNode("/Settings/LibraryDirectories/VideoLibrary");
            string extensions = librariesNode.Attributes["extensions"].InnerText;
            foreach (XmlNode directoryNode in librariesNode)
            {
                if (directoryNode.Name == "Directory")
                {
                    string name = directoryNode.Attributes["name"].InnerText;
                    string directory = directoryNode.InnerText;
                    Logger.Debug(name + " - " + directory);
                }
            }

[ACTCMS]

Thanks sub - elegance personified...

[bgowland]

Thanks sub - elegance personified...

Yeah but I reckon a lot of the code he doesn't show us is held together with sticky-tape and string.

[sub]

I can neither confirm nor deny