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Right now my app pulls all of the Pubmed IDS from an XML file and displays them in a listbox. That code works fine. I am trying to add a function so when the user clicks the listbox, it searches the XML file for that pubmed ID and grabs the information for the corresponding article. This is where I am running into trouble. I can either get it to grab just the pubmed ID node and nothing else, or i can get it to grab the entirety of the XML file. 

I need to retrieve the publication date, the first name, last name, and initial of all the authors in <AuthorList></AuthorList>, and the title of the publication. 

This is the code I am trying now.

 listBox2.Items.Clear();
           //Search the Entrez XML File for the required Data
            var xml = XDocument.Load(XMLFileLocal);
            var pmidPath = xml.XPathSelectElements(String.Format("/PubmedArticleSet/PubmedArticle/MedlineCitation/PMID[.={0}]", listBox1.SelectedItem.ToString()));
            var article = pmidPath.AncestorsAndSelf();
            foreach(var author in article.Descendants("AuthorList"))
            {

                foreach (var subauthor in author.Descendants("Author"))
                {
                    if (subauthor.Element("LastName") != null)
                    {
                        authname = subauthor.Element("LastName").Value + ", " + subauthor.Element("ForeName").Value;

                    }

                    if ((subauthor.Element("Initials") != null))
                    {
                        authname += " " + subauthor.Element("Initials").Value;
                    }
                    listBox2.Items.Add(authname);
                }
            }

It pulls the names and constructs the strings just fine, But I only want it to grab the information from the article corresponding to the pubmed ID. 

What am I doing wrong here?


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