I'm trying to use XPath to get a handle on one specific node so that I can
replace it with an xml fragment I've loaded from another file.

So if I have this XML:

<issue>
<id>1</id>
<date>7/28/2006</date>
<states/>
</issue>

If "myDoc" is the preceding XML loaded into an XmlDocument object, then this
code is what I want to return the <states/node above, but it returns null
instead:

XmlNode statesNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("//states");

I can't seem to get this XPath to return a node. Can someone help me out
here? Is there a better approach?

You need a XMLNameSpaceManager before you use SelectSingleNode

XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace ("IL","urn:IssueList");
xmlNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("issue/states", nsmgr);

Also, if this does not return an empty string, then try including
<states></states>
instead of <states/>

Hope this helps
Ramya
Todd Price wrote:

I'm trying to use XPath to get a handle on one specific node so that I can
replace it with an xml fragment I've loaded from another file.
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So if I have this XML:
>
<issue>
<id>1</id>
<date>7/28/2006</date>
<states/>
</issue>
>
If "myDoc" is the preceding XML loaded into an XmlDocument object, then this
code is what I want to return the <states/node above, but it returns null
instead:
>
XmlNode statesNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("//states");
>
I can't seem to get this XPath to return a node. Can someone help me out
here? Is there a better approach?

That was it! I had been having complications with another issue due to
namespaces, and this cleared that up as well. Thanks!

"Ramya A" wrote:

You need a XMLNameSpaceManager before you use SelectSingleNode
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XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace ("IL","urn:IssueList");
xmlNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("issue/states", nsmgr);
>
Also, if this does not return an empty string, then try including
<states></states>
instead of <states/>
>
Hope this helps
Ramya
Todd Price wrote:

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