Question

I’ve got an xml file that looks like this:

<Records>
<Record>
 <table>
  <Row>
   <col1>value1</col1>
  </Row>
 </table>
</Record>
<Record>
 <table>
  <Row>
   <col1>value2</col1>
  </Row>
 </table>
</Record><Record>
 <table>
  <Row>
   <col1>value3</col1>
  </Row>
 </table>
</Record>
</Records>

What I need is to select all the ROW nodes, across all records, so I’m using something like this:

rowiterator = Me.XMLDocument.CreateNavigator.Evaluate("//table/Row")

which is working, but it returns a NodeIterator that only contains the first Row node in the first record!?!

As far as I can tell, that’s the proper syntax for an xpath expression of “return all Row nodes with a parent table name anywhere in the document”.

I’ve got to be missing something simple, but I’m just not seeing it.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You should use the XPathNavigator.Select method and loop through the iterator. Use the XPathNodeIterator.Current property to access the current XPathNavigator object in the loop.

Dim iter = xmldoc.CreateNavigator().Select("//table/Row")
While (iter.MoveNext())
    Console.WriteLine(iter.Current.Value)
End While