Question

<Document>   <A>      <B>        <C></C>     </B>   </A>   <E>    <F>     <C></C>    </F>    <G>     <C></C>   </G>  </E> </Document> 

If i load the above XML into an XmlDocument and do a SelectSingleNode on A using the XPath query //C

 XmlNode oNode = oDocument.SelectSingleNode('E'); XmlNodeList oNodeList = oNode.SelectNodes('//C'); 

why does it return nodes from Under B when what I would expect to happen would that it only return nodes from under E

Make sense?

Edit : How would i make it only return from that node onwards?

Answer 1

Simply: a leading // means ‘at any level’ in the same document as the selected node.

From the spec:

• //para selects all the para descendants of the document root and thus selects all para elements in the same document as the context node
• .//para selects the para element descendants of the context node