XmlDocument and Xpath

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

29 Mar 2006 4:49 PM

Gnic

Hi ,

I have an XmlDocument instance, I want to find a node in the xml, but I
don't know it's path until runtime, for example

<aaa>
<bbb name="x"/>
     <aaa attr="y">
         <ccc>sometext</ccc>
    </aaa>
</bbb>
</aaa>

sometime I will look for tag "aaa" (the root)
sometime I will loof for tag bbb
sometime I will look for tag the child aaa node (with attribute ="y")

for now I am using the SelectSingleNode method and specify the xPath.
But I don't know how can I found the desire node if I don't know the path.

I've tried

rootElement.SelectSingleNode("aaa[attribute::attr=\"y\"]", myNamespaceMgr);

but it doesn't work. It only work if I specify the full path i.e
aaa\bbb\aaa[attribute::attr=\"y\"], but in my case the path is dyanamic....

so my question is, given a node name and attributes (name and value), if
any, how can I find a node in the xml doc from the root element (any method
is ok, not necessary using xpath)?

thanks first,

Gnic