using System;
using System.Xml;
class Test
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        ReadXMLRecursively rd = new ReadXMLRecursively();
        rd.Run("XMLData.xml");
    }
    public class ReadXMLRecursively
    {
        public void Run(string doc)
        {
            XmlTextReader reader = null;
            try
            {
                // Load the XML from file
                reader = new XmlTextReader(doc);
                reader.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None;
                // Create an XmlDocument from the XmlTextReader
                XmlDocument myXmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
                myXmlDocument.Load (reader);
                // Start from the item Element
                ParseTree(myXmlDocument.DocumentElement);
            
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }
            finally
            {
                if (reader != null)
                {
                    reader.Close();
                }
            }
        }
        
        // Recursive function
        // This function will will recursively traverse 
        // through the XML file and display all the 
        // node and element values
        private void ParseTree(XmlNode node)
        {
            if (node != null)
            {
                if (node.HasChildNodes == true)
                {
                    if (XmlNodeType.Element == node.NodeType)
                    {
                        XmlNamedNodeMap map = node.Attributes;
                        foreach (XmlNode attrnode in map)
                        {
                            if (attrnode.Name == "text")
                            {
                             Console.Write("Text : " + attrnode.Value + " - " );
                            }
                            if (attrnode.Name == "url")
                            {
                             Console.Write("Url : " + attrnode.Value + "\n");
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    node = node.FirstChild;
                    while (node != null)
                    {
                        ParseTree(node);
                        node = node.NextSibling;
                    }
                
                } 
                else 
                {
                    if (node.HasChildNodes == false)
                    {
                        if (node.Attributes != null) 
                        {
                            XmlAttributeCollection attrs = node.Attributes;
                            foreach (XmlAttribute attr in attrs) 
                            {
                                Console.Write("\t");
                                if (attr.Name == "text")
                                {
                                 Console.Write("Text : " + attr.Value + " - ");
                                }
                                if (attr.Name == "url")
                                {
                                 Console.Write("Url : " + attr.Value + "\n");
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }                    
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

XML file Data

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
<menu>
    <item text="File" url="folder">
        <item text="Open" url="test.htm"></item>
        <item text="Save" url="test.htm"></item>
        <item text="Close" url="test.htm"></item>
    </item>
    <item text="View" url="test.htm"></item>
    <item text="Help" url="folder">
        <item text="Contents" url="test.htm"></item>
        <item text="Search" url="folder">
            <item text="Search file" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="Search directory" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="Search Text" url="folder">
                <item text="Find" url="test.htm"></item>
                <item text="Replace" url="test.htm"></item>
            </item>
        </item>
        <item text="About" url="test.htm"></item>
    </item>
    <item text="XML" url="folder">
        <item text="View XML" url="test.htm"></item>
    </item>
    <item text="Window" url="test.htm"></item>
    <item text="Tools" url="test.htm"></item>
    <item text="Debug" url="test.htm"></item>
    <item text="Build" url="test.htm"></item>
    <item text="Favorites" url="test.htm">
        <item text="Add to Favorites" url="test.htm"></item>
        <item text="Organize Favorites" url="test.htm"></item>
        <item text="News" url="test.htm">
            <item text="Yahoo" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="Msn" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="Cnn" url="test.htm"></item>
        </item>
        <item text="Mail" url="test.htm">
            <item text="Hotmail" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="YahooMail" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="OutLookMail" url="test.htm"></item>
        </item>
        <item text="Shipping" url="test.htm">
            <item text="Ups" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="Fedex" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="Usps" url="test.htm"></item>
        </item>
        <item text="Links" url="test.htm">
            <item text="ASP.NET" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="Gotdotnet" url="test.htm"></item>
            <item text="MSDN" url="test.htm"></item>
        </item>
    </item>
    <item text="Project" url="test.htm"></item>
    <item text="Table" url="test.htm"></item>
</menu>