Simple XPath Question

[antoine orchus tech]

Hi, Having not found a good XPath tutorial out there yet, here is my question.. This is how I try to display the fisrtname of the first contact in the Contact.xml file, Consider this code: XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument(); myDoc.Load(Application.StartupPath + "\\Contact.xml"); txtPrénom.Text = myDoc.SelectSingleNode("//Prenom").Value; What am I missing here? Thank you for your help! Antoine This by our hands that dream, "I shall find a way or make one!"

[Christian Graus]

try txtPrénom.Text = myDoc.SelectSingleNode("//Prenom[first()]").Value; Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder

[Tomas Petricek]

SelectSingleNode returns first node matching XPath so your code should IMHO work, but only if "Prenom" is element (not attribute). To select attrbute you need to use this XPath //@Prenom. You can also use xpath like following:

Xml:

<contacts>
<contact firstname="Bill">
...
<contact>
...
</contacts>

XPath: contacts/contact/@firstname returns 'Bill'

Great XPath tutorial is at www.w3schools.com[^].

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[hravn]

Better tutorial at http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/index.html[^] ... ;)

[John Arlen]

You have the right idea, but it depends on your actual XML. I suggest getting the node directly and looking at it. This will help answer your question. DogCat XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("//Prenom"); node.Value == null node.InnerText == "Dog"