Question

I’ve been having some trouble getting my head around XPath.

Want i want to do, is to extract an exchange rate from a currency country code.

My XML with currecies is here: http://www.nationalbanken.dk/dndk/valuta.nsf/valuta.xml

This is my query:

query = xml.XPathSelectElement(**"exhangerates/dailyrates/currency[@code='"+ country +"']@rate"**).Value;

I’m workiing in .NET 3.5 and a asp webservice project, which produces the following error:

System.Xml.XPath.XPathException: 'exhangerates/dailyrates/currency[@code='USD']@rate' has an invalid token.
   at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.XPathParser.ParseXPathExpresion(String xpathExpresion)
   at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.QueryBuilder.Build(String query, Boolean allowVar, Boolean allowKey)
   at MS.Internal.Xml.XPath.QueryBuilder.Build(String query, Boolean& needContext)
   at System.Xml.XPath.XPathExpression.Compile(String xpath, IXmlNamespaceResolver nsResolver)
   at System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator.Evaluate(String xpath, IXmlNamespaceResolver resolver)
   at System.Xml.XPath.XPathEvaluator.Evaluate[T](XNode node, String expression, IXmlNamespaceResolver resolver)
   at System.Xml.XPath.Extensions.XPathSelectElements(XNode node, String expression, IXmlNamespaceResolver resolver)
   at System.Xml.XPath.Extensions.XPathSelectElement(XNode node, String expression)
   at WebServiceCurrency.Service1.RetrieveExchangeRate(String country) in c:\Users\Peter\Documents\GitHub\HotMess\C#\Webservices\WebServiceCurrency\WebServiceCurrency\Service1.asmx.cs:line 35

Answer 1

This works:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>    
 <xsl:template match="/">

   <xsl:value-of select="//dailyrates/currency[@code='USD']/@rate" />

 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

566,97

So the solution for you should be

query = xml.XPathSelectElement(**"exhangerates/dailyrates/currency[@code='"+ country +"']/@rate"**).Value;