How to read CDATA section using c#

CDATA means character data is used to store information in markup languages like XML. Here we will take a look at how to read this CDATA section using C#. Let's consider a XML file as;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Books>
  <Book ID="ISBN001" Title="ABC">
    <![CDATA[This is the information of ABC]]>
  </Book >
  <Book  ID="ISBN002" Title="DEF">
    <![CDATA[This is the information of DEF]]>
  </Book >
</Books>

Now we will take a look at the code which will read the CDATA section.

string strPath = @"<<Path of XML file>>";
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(strPath);
XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNode node = doc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode(
@"/Books/Book");
XmlNode childNode = node.ChildNodes[0];
if (childNode is XmlCDataSection)
{
       XmlCDataSection cdataSection = childNode as XmlCDataSection;
       MessageBox.Show(cdataSection.Value);
}

Here I have retrieved only first node from the xml, you can select nodes as a node list and iterate through it to get CDATA section from all the nodes.