Option 2 is surely faster. This is because, when you use String += something, then the value of string is copied to new instance every time because the string is immutable. So the code has to copy the value 10000 times or so and that too with growing...

Reason for current output:
Each time the code executes inside foreach(...), the event method is overwritten untill last item in the string array corners. Hence at last, only one line goes insde the method and that is for "West".
To make this ...

` /* Explanation of code and approach:
Here, I have used xmlDocument class to lead the specified xml fiel from the given path.
After loading the file, I navigate through each "Publisher" node untill I find desired PublisherName.
Onec it...