Beginners-problem with xpath filter and XML

[trond]

Hello all,
I am building a personal web site in VS2005 as a kind of learing
project for myself, so forgive me if this is a novice question.

I am planning to use an XML file called SiteSettings.xm l to hold
site-wide info such as copyright info, site title (e.g. my homepage)
etc. Currently this xml file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SiteSettings >
<Settings Name="TitleText ">
<value>My homepage</value>
</Settings>
</SiteSettings>

U use a datalist and a xmldatasource to display the data. The
xmldatasource lets me supply an xpath filter to display only the data I
want. As Im planning to expand this xml-file as I add more site
settings, I need an xpath that displays only the correct data. I am
trying to build an xpath that simply returns "My homepage" without the
node name or anything, but I am having a hard time making it work -
either it includes the "value" or simply doesn't show up at all..

If anybody has any inputs to either how to construct my Xpath or maybe
if I should go with another XML structure, I would gratly appreciate
it.

Trond Hindenes
Novice vb.net programmer
Norway

[Pascal Schmitt]

Hello!

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SiteSettings >
<Settings Name="TitleText ">
<value>My homepage</value>
</Settings>
</SiteSettings>

U use a datalist and a xmldatasource to display the data. The
xmldatasource lets me supply an xpath filter to display only the data I
want. As Im planning to expand this xml-file as I add more site
settings, I need an xpath that displays only the correct data. I am
trying to build an xpath that simply returns "My homepage" without the
node name or anything, but I am having a hard time making it work -
either it includes the "value" or simply doesn't show up at all..

Try this:

/SiteSettings/Settings[@Name = 'TitleText']/value/text()
--
Pascal Schmitt

[trond]

Works like a charm, thanks a lot!!

BTW, when looking at my code, I see that vistual studio adds the text
"Value:" before the actual content in the xpath query, so i wasn't way
off :-)

thanks again,

best regerds,
Trond Hindenes
Norway