Question

I’m developing in C#, and am processing xml from an external soap call.
I have loaded the xml response into an XElement.

Given the following xml stub

<record>
   <node>
       <a>My title</a>
       <name>title_en</name>
   </node>
   <node>
      <a>...</a>
      <name>contact_name</name>
   </node>
   .....
</record>

Using xpath in C#: I’m trying to do the follow when using the method XPathSelectElement.

where

\record\node\name == 'title_en' select \record\node\a

If there is a better method to use or another suggestion on how to preform the query, I’m open to ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need a predicate to constrain which node elements you need:

/record/node[name = 'title_en']/a

You read this expression as “find the record element, find all its child elements named node that have a name child with value “title_en”, and for each of those find all a children”