Matching values in XPATH

[Jesper Denmark]

I use Xpath to retrieve nodes in a document like :

doc.SelectSingleNode("/properties/layer[@width='0.2']");

- however this is not very robust as I'm only query on
text. What if width='0.200' instead of width='0.2', then
the above Xpath line wont match the node in question. Is
there a way to query for the value instead of the text?

Best regards
Jesper.

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Please post xml related questions to microsoft.public.dotnet.xml, I'm sure
you will find better help there.
Willy.

"Jesper Denmark" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I use Xpath to retrieve nodes in a document like :

doc.SelectSingleNode("/properties/layer[@width='0.2']");

- however this is not very robust as I'm only query on
text. What if width='0.200' instead of width='0.2', then
the above Xpath line wont match the node in question. Is
there a way to query for the value instead of the text?

Best regards
Jesper.

[Mattias Sjögren]

Jesper,

Is there a way to query for the value instead of the text?

Try

doc.SelectSingleNode("/properties/layer[number(@width)=0.2]");

Mattias

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