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Reputation: 291

Want to find a specific node in xml

Currently, I have the xml as the following:

<Node_Parent>

 <Column name="ColA" value="A" />
 <Column name="ColB" value="B" />
 <Column name="ColC" value="C" />
</Node_Parent>

How to get value B at ColB? I tried to use XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("Node_Parent"), but I cannot access to ColB?

If I change to <ColB value="B" />, I can use XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("Node_Parent/ColB").Attributes["value"].Value, but the xml format doesn't look good?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 106

Answers (1)

Roy Dictus
Roy Dictus

Reputation: 33139

You need to write an XPath query in the SelectSingleNode:

var value = doc.SelectSingleNode(
    "Node_Parent/Column[@name = 'ColB']"
    ).Attributes["value"].Value;

For more info on the XPath query language, see http://www.w3schools.com/xpath.

Good luck!

Upvotes: 2

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