Trouble Reading XML string

[Ron]

I have a method that generates an string in XML format and passes it to be
processed. The string is in the following format:

<grandparent>
<parent>
<child1>text</child1>
<child2>text again</child2>
</parent>
<aunt>
<cousin1>text</cousin1>
<cousin2>text2</cousin2>
<cousin3>text4</cousin3>
</aunt>
</grandparent>

string xmlInput = <values above>
XPathDocument xpDoc = new XPathDocument(new StringReader(xmlInput));
XPathNavigator xpNav = xpDoc.CreateNavigator();

//move to root element <grandparent>
xpNav.MoveToRoot();
xpNav.MoveToFirstChild(); //move to <parent>
xpNav.MoveToFirstChild(); //move to <child1>
strChild1 = xpNav.Value;
xpNav.MoveToNext(); //move to <child2>
strChild2 = xpNav.Value;
.....

The problem I am having is that the xpNav.Value keeps concatenating every
other value onto itself. So instead of having:
strChild1 = "text";
and
strChild2 = "text again";
as I expect, I am getting the following:
strChild1 = "texttextagain";, etc.

Can anyone give me any ideas as to what I am doing wrong and how I might be
able to fix it?

Thanks for your help,

Ron


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Ron Rodenberg
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[Oleg Tkachenko]

Ron wrote:

I have a method that generates an string in XML format and passes it to be
processed. The string is in the following format:

<grandparent>
<parent>
<child1>text</child1>
<child2>text again</child2>
</parent>
<aunt>
<cousin1>text</cousin1>
<cousin2>text2</cousin2>
<cousin3>text4</cousin3>
</aunt>
</grandparent>

string xmlInput = <values above>
XPathDocument xpDoc = new XPathDocument(new StringReader(xmlInput));
XPathNavigator xpNav = xpDoc.CreateNavigator();

//move to root element <grandparent>
xpNav.MoveToRoot();
xpNav.MoveToFirstChild(); //move to <parent>

Nope. Move to <grandparent>. Reread what MoveToRoot() method does:
"Moves to the root node to which the current node belongs.

public abstract void MoveToRoot();

Remarks
All nodes belong to one and only one document. Therefore, this method is
always successful. For a definition of a root node, see section 5.1 of the W3C
XML Path Language (XPath) recommendation located at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model."

Root node in XPath data model is not grandparent element, it's its parent.
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Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel