XML Loading Problem

[Nick Parker]

Does anyone have any clues as to why I would get an "Unhandled Exception of type 'System.Xml.XmlException'" with the following code sniplet? It just says "Additional information: System Error". What is weird is that the error occurs on the red line and does not throw an exception based on my code (It comes from the IDE). Am I missing something blatant here?

XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml("XMLTree.xml");
try
{
XmlNodeList xmlnodeList = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("categories");
foreach(XmlNode x in xmlnodeList)
{
MessageBox.Show(x.InnerText);

}

}
catch(System.Xml.XmlException e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message + "\n\n" + e.StackTrace);
}

-Nick Parker

[Philip Fitzsimons]

your mistake is: xmlDoc.LoadXml("XMLTree.xml"); you want xmlDoc.Load("XMLTree.xml"); currently your code thinks that "XMLTre.xml" is xml source ;P

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[cdehelean]

My guess: it has nothing to do with the categories XPath you gave. Your xml document is malformed and the parser gets confused in parsing it. All I need is a roadmap and then I might be able to find a clue.

[Nick Parker]

Philip Fitzsimons wrote: currently your code thinks that "XMLTre.xml" is xml source :-O Thanks, that did it. :) -Nick Parker