I have a noob problem. I select a node by its attribute and than I would like to get its children node value, but I always get the first node values instead. My xml:
<Sites>
<Site ID="032">
<Name>
Rome
</Name>
<Code>
---
</Code>
<Visible>
true
</Visible>
</Site>
<Site ID="040">
<Name>
Paris
</Name>
<Code>
---
</Code>
<Visible>
true
</Visible>
<Site>
<Site ID="055">
<Name>
Berlin
</Name>
<Code>
---
</Code>
<Visible>
true
</Visible>
</Site>
</Sites>
My code:
XmlDocument xSite = new XmlDocument();
xSite.Load("Data\\Site.xml");
XmlNode siteNode = xSite.SelectSingleNode("/Sites/Site[@ID='" + _selectedSite.ID + "']");
string sitenodestr = siteNode.InnerText;
_selectedSite.Code = siteNode.SelectSingleNode("//Code").InnerText.Trim();
_selectedSite.Name = siteNode.SelectSingleNode("//Name").InnerText.Trim();
string visib = siteNode.SelectSingleNode("//Visible").InnerText.Trim();
_selectedSite.Visibility = Convert.ToBoolean(visib);
I checked and the ID is correct, and also siteNode content is correct, but I always get the Name of the first Site (rome in the example). can you help me?
It should be just not
siteNode.SelectSingleNode("//Code")...
but
siteNode.SelectSingleNode("Code")...
It is because //Code
Xpath expression means "All "Code" elements in the document", but you need only children of siteNode
.
See Xpath syntax examples for reference.