Question

Say i have the following xml file:

<a>
  <b>
    <c></c>
  </b>
  <b>
    <c></c>
  </b>
</a>

var nodes = doc.SelectNodes("/a/b");

will select the two b nodes.

I then loop these two nodes suchas:

 foreach (XmlNode node in nodes) { }

However, when i call node.SelectNodes("/a/b/c"); It still returns both values and not just the descendants.
Is it possible to select nodes only descening from the current node?

Answer 1

In the foreach loop, you already know that node is a /a/b in the original document – so to get just its c children simply use a relative xpath:

node.SelectNodes("c")