CSharp - Write program to find empty XML tag without parsing XML string

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Requirements

Suppose we have read the following XML structure in a string.

Write a program that can print only the non-empty employee names. 

<EmpRecord>
<Employee1>
      <EmpName>R</EmpName>
      <EmpId>1001</EmpId>
  </Employee1>
  <Employee2>
      <EmpName>A</EmpName>
      <EmpId>1002</EmpId>
 </Employee2>
 <Employee3>
      <EmpName></EmpName>
      <EmpId>1003</EmpId>
 </Employee3>
 <Employee4>
      <EmpName>S</EmpName>
      <EmpId>1004</EmpId>
 </Employee4>
</EmpRecord>

Hint

Split string and then check the value

Demo

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

class Program//w ww  . j  a va 2 s .c om
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string employee =@"<EmpRecord>
                <Employee1>
                  <EmpName>R</EmpName>
                  <EmpId>1001</EmpId>
                </Employee1>
                <Employee2>
                 <EmpName>A</EmpName>
                 <EmpId>1002</EmpId>
                </Employee2>
                <Employee3>
                 <EmpName></EmpName>
                 <EmpId>1003</EmpId>
                </Employee3>
                <Employee4>
                 <EmpName>S</EmpName>
                 <EmpId>1004</EmpId>
                </Employee4>
               </EmpRecord>";
        string[] splt = { "<EmpName>", "</EmpName>" };
        List<string> empNamesList = new List<string>();
        string[] temp = employee.Split(splt, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
        for (int i = 0; i < temp.Length; i++)
        {
            if (!temp[i].Contains("<"))
            {
                empNamesList.Add(temp[i]);
            }
        }
        foreach (string s in empNamesList)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(s);
        }
    }
}

Result