Question

Consider the following XML:

<Items>
    <Item>
        <Code>Test</Code>
        <Value>Test</Value>
    </Item>
    <Item>
        <Code>MyCode</Code>
        <Value>MyValue</Value>
    </Item>
    <Item>
        <Code>AnotherItem</Code>
        <Value>Another value</Value>
    </Item>
</Items>

I would like to select the Value node of the Item that has the Code node in with the value MyCode. How would I go about using XPath?

I’ve tried using Items/Item[Code=MyCode]/Value but it doesn’t seem to work.

Answer 1

Your XML data is wrong. The Value tag doesn’t have correct matching closing tags, and your Item tags don’t have matching closing tags (</Item>).

As for your XPath, try enclosing the data you want to match in quotes:

const string xmlString =
@"<Items>
    <Item>
        <Code>Test</Code>
        <Value>Test</Value>
    </Item>
    <Item>
        <Code>MyCode</Code>
        <Value>MyValue</Value>
    </Item>
    <Item>
        <Code>AnotherItem</Code>
        <Value>Another value</Value>
    </Item>
</Items>";

var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xmlString);
XmlElement element = (XmlElement)doc.SelectSingleNode("Items/Item[Code='MyCode']/Value");
Console.WriteLine(element.InnerText);