I need to please, see if someone can light me up a bit, since I have an xml with information about alerts of a medication that is obtained from a REST service published on a server. the answer comes in xml format, and I'm trying to read it with linq
this is the answer I must analyze:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>Prescription Analysis</title>
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="/rest/api/alerts" />
<id>/rest/api/alerts</id>
<updated>2017-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
<entry xmlns:vidal="http://api.vidal.net/-/spec/vidal-api/1.0/" vidal:categories="PRESCRIPTION_LINE">
<title>piroxicam * 10 mg ; vía oral ; cápsula dura</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/rest/api/vmp/376" />
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://side_effect/376/14863" />
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://indicator/IS_NOT_COMMUNALLY_AGREED" />
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://warning/376/2373" />
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://side_effect/376/14873" />
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://side_effect/376/29493" />
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://side_effect/376/18634" />
<category term="PRESCRIPTION_LINE" />
<author>
<name>VIDAL</name>
</author>
<id>vidal://vmp/376</id>
<updated>2017-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
<content />
<vidal:safetyAlert>true</vidal:safetyAlert>
<vidal:type>COMMON_NAME_GROUP</vidal:type>
<vidal:code>376</vidal:code>
</entry>
<entry xmlns:vidal="http://api.vidal.net/-/spec/vidal-api/1.0/" vidal:categories="ALERT">
<title>Contraindicación absoluta : PIROXICAM 10 mg cápsula dura</title>
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://vmp/376" />
<category term="ALERT" />
<author>
<name>VIDAL</name>
</author>
<id>vidal://contraindication/376/9021/1</id>
<updated>2017-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
<content type="text/html">Contraindicaci&oacute;n absoluta entre PIROXICAM 10 mg c&aacute;psula dura y Ni&ntilde;o menor de 15 a&ntilde;os</content>
<vidal:type>CONTRA_INDICATION</vidal:type>
<vidal:alertType name="CONTRA_INDICATION">Contraindicación</vidal:alertType>
<vidal:severity>LEVEL_4</vidal:severity>
<vidal:subType name="ABSOLUTE">absoluta</vidal:subType>
<vidal:detail type="text/html" />
<vidal:triggeredBy type="AGE" />
</entry>
<entry xmlns:vidal="http://api.vidal.net/-/spec/vidal-api/1.0/" vidal:categories="ALERT">
<title>Efectos adversos: PIROXICAM 10 mg cápsula dura</title>
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://vmp/376" />
<category term="ALERT" />
<author>
<name>VIDAL</name>
</author>
<id>vidal://side_effect/376/39584</id>
<updated>2017-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
<content type="text/html">Insomnio</content>
<vidal:type>SIDE_EFFECT</vidal:type>
<vidal:alertType name="SIDE_EFFECT">Efecto adverso</vidal:alertType>
<vidal:severity>INFO</vidal:severity>
<vidal:detail type="text/html">Frecuencia</vidal:detail>
</entry>
<entry xmlns:vidal="http://api.vidal.net/-/spec/vidal-api/1.0/" vidal:categories="ALERT">
<title>Efectos adversos: PIROXICAM 10 mg cápsula dura</title>
<link rel="inline" href="vidal://vmp/376" />
<category term="ALERT" />
<author>
<name>VIDAL</name>
</author>
<id>vidal://side_effect/376/14113</id>
<updated>2017-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
<content type="text/html">Edema de las extremidades inferiores</content>
<vidal:type>SIDE_EFFECT</vidal:type>
<vidal:alertType name="SIDE_EFFECT">Efecto adverso</vidal:alertType>
<vidal:severity>INFO</vidal:severity>
<vidal:detail type="text/html">Frecuencia</vidal:detail>
</entry>
<entry xmlns:vidal="http://api.vidal.net/-/spec/vidal-api/1.0/" vidal:categories="PATIENT">
<title>Patient</title>
<link rel="self" href="vidal://patient/1" title="Patient" />
<category term="PATIENT" />
<author>
<name>VIDAL</name>
</author>
<id>vidal://patient/1</id>
<updated>2017-09-05T16:21:09Z</updated>
<content />
<vidal:gender>MALE</vidal:gender>
<vidal:height>180.0</vidal:height>
<vidal:hepaticInsufficiency>SEVERE</vidal:hepaticInsufficiency>
<vidal:dateOfBirth>Thu Nov 08 15:44:50 CET 2012</vidal:dateOfBirth>
<vidal:creatin>120</vidal:creatin>
<vidal:weight>80.0</vidal:weight>
<vidal:breastFeeding>NONE</vidal:breastFeeding>
<vidal:weeksOfAmenorrhea>5</vidal:weeksOfAmenorrhea>
</entry>
</feed>
In this answer, I need to get all the nodes that contain <vidal:type>CONTRA_INDICATION</vidal:type>
, or <vidal:severity>LEVEL_4</vidal:severity>
.
I am using the following linq query, to get the information:
XElement xmldoc = XElement.Parse(responseFromServer);
XElement query = (from item in xmldoc.XPathSelectElements("severity") select item).FirstOrDefault();
but results are not delivered (the variable query = null).