looping through parent child combination xml using c#

I am new to xml, i want to looping through the below xml and save the records in the database. the below xml is parent child c开发者_StackOverflow中文版ombination, parts as to be saved under respective parents. if the source field is M then there will be child item for that.

  <PARENT>
 <COMPONENT>
  <part>test1</part><source>M</source><ParentPart>parent</ParentPart>
  <SUBCOMPONENT>
   <part>test2</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>test1</ParentPart>
  </SUBCOMPONENT>

  <SUBCOMPONENT>
   <part>test3</part><source>M</source><ParentPart>test1</ParentPart>
   <SUBSUBCOMPONENT>
    <part>test4</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>test3</ParentPart>
   </SUBSUBCOMPONENT>
  </SUBCOMPONENT>

 </COMPONENT>

 <COMPONENT>
  <part>part1</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>parent</ParentPart>
 </COMPONENT>

 <COMPONENT>
   <part>part2</part><source>M</source><ParentPart>parent</ParentPart>
  <SUBCOMPONENT>
   <part>part3</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>part2</ParentPart>
  </SUBCOMPONENT>

  <SUBCOMPONENT>
   <part>part4</part><source>M</source><ParentPart>part2</ParentPart>
   <SUBSUBCOMPONENT>
    <part>part5</part><source>B</source><ParentPart>part4</ParentPart>
   </SUBSUBCOMPONENT>
  </SUBCOMPONENT>

 </COMPONENT>

</PARENT>

any help would be appropriated.

Thanks,

Pradeep

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You have a lot of options here: - if you have xml schema, use xsd.exe which generates classes you fillup with XmlSerializer. - XmlDocument allows you to do XPath queries. - consider XmlTextReader if your files are large and you need fast proccesing.