public static bool IsCategory(LingoWord w, string c)
{
if (w.Category == c)
{
return(true);
}
return(false);
}
private List <LingoWord> GetDataFromXDocument()
{
// Load data from an XML file
// TODO: Test and debug this for non-existant file; bad data format; whatever else
XDocument xWords = XDocument.Load("initialLingoWords.xml");
// gather 'Item' elements from xDocument into an iterable collection
IEnumerable <XElement> itemsXml = xWords.Descendants("Item");
// Create a generic list of Words from XML elements in the iterable itemsXml
List <LingoWord> listWord = new List <LingoWord>(itemsXml.Count());
LingoWord item = null;
foreach (XElement xItem in itemsXml)
{
item = new LingoWord()
{
Category = xItem.Element("Category").Value,
Word = xItem.Element("Word").Value
};
listWord.Add(item);
}
return(listWord);
}