Question

I have loaded XmlDocument into memory and created new XmlElement. Now I am trying to add XmlElement to the path /report/section/hosts but I don’t know how. I can add it easily below root node of XML but I cannot figure out how can I navigate deeper level in XML and just append there. In pseudo I am trying to do this:

doc.SelectNodes(‘/report/section/hosts’).AppendChild(subRoot);

The code:

        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();          doc.Load('c:\\data.xml');          //host         XmlElement subRoot = doc.CreateElement('host');          //Name         XmlElement ElName = doc.CreateElement('name');         XmlText TxtName = doc.CreateTextNode('text text');         ElName.AppendChild(TxtName);         subRoot.AppendChild(ElName);         doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(subRoot);          doc.Save('c:\\data.xml'); 

Answer 1

Try SelectSingleNode instead of SelectNodes

XmlElement parent = (XmlElement)doc.SelectSingleNode('/report/section/hosts') parent.AppendChild(subRoot);