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Need certain xPath search pattern

I want to read a certain XmlNode from a XmlTextReader. My file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="true"?>
<data>
   <legend>
      <element>
         <tag> aqua </tag>
...

while the "aqua" text is surrounded by "/r/n". So I tried to read it somehow like:

dataNode.SelectNodes("//legend/element").where("Tag".Trim() == "aqua");

of course this is just scrap and not working so I need the right one.

Can someone name the right XPath pattern ?

Solution

  • As an XPath 1.0 expression I think you want //legend/element[tag[normalize-space() = 'aqua']]. That selects element elements that have a tag child elements whose normalized string value is aqua.