Question

I’ve got the following (simplified) XML…

<root type="object">
    <user type="object">
        <id type="number">123</id>
    </user>
    <id type="number">456</id>
</root>

I’m using the following to get the Id from the root element

    Dim Navigator = Document.CreateNavigator()
    Dim ns = New XmlNamespaceManager(Navigator.NameTable)
    Dim nodes = Navigator.Select("/root", ns)
    Dim Node = nodes.Current
    Element = Node.SelectSingleNode("/id")
    Dim Id = Element.Value

In this case, Element.Value contains the User Id

What’s the correct selector for the root Id?

Answer 1

Why don’t you select the root-id node directly?

Navigator.Select("/root/id", ns)