Question extract sub element value from a XML node

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Hi there,

I?m new to this board and this is my first post. I?m a beginner in VB .NET and I apologize in advance if I?m raising an stupid question. I searched around the board and Googled it but I probably was unable to use the correct words to find out what I?m looking for. I?m totally new to XML parsing as well...

I have the code below which is supposed to populate a richbox, line by line with the elements and attributes of each <Tool ID> node, which starts with <Tool ID> (Where ID is the 1st attribute I do extract) and ends with </Tool>.

I?m successful extracting the first elements and attributes after the element "<Tool", but for the elements that are within the sub element <Cutter> and <Holder>, I?m struggling to figure out how to move the descendent to "<Cutter>" and next "<Holder>" and extract the elements from there, while keeping the loop looking for each "<Tool" element as a whole new set. The idea is to append lines to the richbox for each new "<Tool"...

Each <Tool> can have more than one <Cutter> or <Holder> inside it... They can have several of each element type in fact...

I think I have to shift "offer" to look into the next sub node (<Cutter>) and next (<Holder>) using something like offer = offer.NextNode but that?s not working...

Can someone point me out in the right direction here or recommend some resource I could learn about how to do it?

Below you can see also the XML code with (<Cutter>) and (<Holder>) sub nodes highlighted.

Many thanks in advance,

Daniel

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Xml.XPath


Public Class Form1
    Public Delay As Integer = 500


    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click


        Dim path As String = "C:\Development\File.xml"
        XDocument.Load(path)
        Dim doc = XElement.Load(path)
        For Each offer As XElement In doc.Descendants("Tool")
            If offer.HasElements Then 


[COLOR=#ff0000]'************************************************    
'* The extraction works fine up to this portion *
'************************************************


'From here on the information is extracted from the sub node "Tool"[/COLOR]


            Dim ID = offer.Attribute("ID").Value
                Dim Unidades = offer.Attribute("Units").Value
                Dim Descricao = offer.Element("Description").Value
                Dim Tipo = offer.Element("Type").Value


[COLOR=#ff0000]'********************************************************************************************************************    
'* This is where the extraction starts to fail since the elements here are within a sub element named <Cutter> Code *
'********************************************************************************************************************    


'From here now the information is extracted from the sub node "Cutter"[/COLOR]


                Dim Referencia = offer.Element("Reference").Value
                Dim Arquivo = offer.Element("FileName").Value
                Dim Grupo = offer.Element("ToolID").Value
                Dim Entidade = offer.Element("EntityName").Value


                If ID <> Nothing Then
                    RichTextBox1.AppendText("Tool ID: " & ID.ToString & " | " & "Unidade: " & Unidades & " | " & "Descri??o: " & Descricao & _
                     " | " & "Tipo: " & Tipo & " | " & "Referencia: " & Entidade & " | " & "Entidade: " & Entidade & " | " & "Arquivo: " & Arquivo & _
                     " | " & "Grupo: " & Grupo & vbNewLine)
                End If
            End If
        Next
    End Sub
End Class

Below my XML file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <Tools>
[COLOR=#ff0000]  <Tool[/COLOR] ID="100003" Units="Millimeter">
      <Description>100003</Description>
      <Teeth>1</Teeth>
      <Type>Turning</Type>
     [COLOR=#ff0000] <Cutter>[/COLOR]
        <Reference ID="12143 - N123G2-0300-0002-GF">
          <FileName>MASTER_LIBRARY.tls</FileName>
          <ToolID>Torneamento - Insertos paramétricos</ToolID>
          <EntityName>12143 - N123G2-0300-0002-GF</EntityName>
          <Origin>
            <X>34.8</X>
            <Y>0</Y>
            <Z>-82.9</Z>
          </Origin>
          <Rotation>
            <X>0</X>
            <Y>-90</Y>
            <Z>0</Z>
          </Rotation>
          <NoSpin>0</NoSpin>
          <Alternate>Off</Alternate>
        </Reference>
      [COLOR=#ff0000]</Cutter>
      <Holder>[/COLOR]
        <Reference ID="12135 - C5-570-32-LF">
          <FileName>MASTER_LIBRARY.tls</FileName>
          <ToolID>Holders & Acessorios</ToolID>
          <EntityName>12135 - C5-570-32-LF</EntityName>
          <NoSpin>0</NoSpin>
          <Alternate>Off</Alternate>
        </Reference>
        <Reference ID="12142 - 570-32L123G18B067A">
          <FileName>MASTER_LIBRARY.tls</FileName>
          <ToolID>Holders & Acessorios</ToolID>
          <EntityName>12142 - 570-32L123G18B067A</EntityName>
          <Origin>
            <X>21</X>
            <Y>0</Y>
            <Z>-42</Z>
          </Origin>
          <NoSpin>0</NoSpin>
          <Alternate>Off</Alternate>
        </Reference>
   [COLOR=#ff0000]   </Holder>[/COLOR]
      <DrivenPoint ID="1">
        <Type>-1</Type>
        <Radius>0</Radius>
        <X>35</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
        <Z>-83.1</Z>
      </DrivenPoint>
      <DrivenPoint ID="2">
        <Type>-1</Type>
        <Radius>0</Radius>
        <X>32</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
        <Z>-83.1</Z>
      </DrivenPoint>
      <CutterCompensation ID="1">0.2</CutterCompensation>
      <CutterCompensation ID="2">0.2</CutterCompensation>
[COLOR=#ff0000]    </Tool>[/COLOR]
    <Tool ID="100004" Units="Millimeter">
      <Description>100004</Description>
      <Teeth>1</Teeth>
      <Type>Turning</Type>
      <Cutter>
        <Reference ID="12140 - N123G2-0318-0008">
          <FileName>MASTER_LIBRARY.tls</FileName>
          <ToolID>Torneamento - Insertos paramétricos</ToolID>
          <EntityName>12140 - N123G2-0318-0008</EntityName>
          <Origin>
            <X>34.2</X>
            <Y>0</Y>
            <Z>-82.3</Z>
          </Origin>
          <Rotation>
            <X>0</X>
            <Y>-90</Y>
            <Z>0</Z>
          </Rotation>
          <NoSpin>0</NoSpin>
          <Alternate>Off</Alternate>
        </Reference>
      </Cutter>
      <Holder>
        <Reference ID="12135 - C5-570-32-LF">
          <FileName>MASTER_LIBRARY.tls</FileName>
          <ToolID>Holders & Acessorios</ToolID>
          <EntityName>12135 - C5-570-32-LF</EntityName>
          <NoSpin>0</NoSpin>
          <Alternate>Off</Alternate>
        </Reference>
        <Reference ID="12139 - 570-32L123G18B130A">
          <FileName>MASTER_LIBRARY.tls</FileName>
          <ToolID>Holders & Acessorios</ToolID>
          <EntityName>12139 - 570-32L123G18B130A</EntityName>
          <Origin>
            <X>21</X>
            <Y>0</Y>
            <Z>-42</Z>
          </Origin>
          <NoSpin>0</NoSpin>
          <Alternate>Off</Alternate>
        </Reference>
      </Holder>
      <DrivenPoint ID="1">
        <Type>-1</Type>
        <Radius>0</Radius>
        <X>35</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
        <Z>-83.1</Z>
      </DrivenPoint>
      <DrivenPoint ID="2">
        <Type>-1</Type>
        <Radius>0</Radius>
        <X>31.82</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
        <Z>-83.1</Z>
      </DrivenPoint>
      <CutterCompensation ID="1">0.8</CutterCompensation>
      <CutterCompensation ID="2">0.8</CutterCompensation>
    </Tool>
  </Tools>