Question

I am trying to count all the nodes within an xml document using XPathDocument

the code im using is

var xmlPathDoc = new XPathDocument(new StringReader(xml));
XPathNavigator documentNav = xmlPathDoc.CreateNavigator();

is there a way to count these when i dont know the name of the nodes

i wanted to use something like

int nodeCount = documentNav.Select("/").Count;

but wasnt sure what to put in the select part

thanks

simon

Answer 1

XmlNode node = myDoc.SelectSingleNode("/");

int i = node.SelectNodes("descendant::*").Count;

Also refer Count Total Number of XmlNodes in C#