XmlNodeList - how to find out index of node in original child collection?

[Marina]

Hi,

Given a node, how can one find out its index in the collection of nodes it
belongs to?

Thanks

[Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]]

There is no way to get this information. The same way there is no way to ask
an integer in an array which position in the array it came from.

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"Marina" <so*****@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

Given a node, how can one find out its index in the collection of nodes it
belongs to?

Thanks

[Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]]

There is no way to get this information. The same way there is no way to ask
an integer in an array which position in the array it came from.

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"Marina" <so*****@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

Given a node, how can one find out its index in the collection of nodes it
belongs to?

Thanks

[Marina]

That is not true.

I found a way to do it via XPATH, something like this works:

node.SelectNodes("preceding-sibling::*").Count

"Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]" <da***@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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There is no way to get this information. The same way there is no way to ask an integer in an array which position in the array it came from.

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"Marina" <so*****@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

Given a node, how can one find out its index in the collection of nodes it belongs to?

Thanks

[Marina]

That is not true.

I found a way to do it via XPATH, something like this works:

node.SelectNodes("preceding-sibling::*").Count

"Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]" <da***@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:40******@news.microsoft.com...

There is no way to get this information. The same way there is no way to ask an integer in an array which position in the array it came from.

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"Marina" <so*****@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

Given a node, how can one find out its index in the collection of nodes it belongs to?

Thanks

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Marina wrote:

I found a way to do it via XPATH, something like this works:

node.SelectNodes("preceding-sibling::*").Count

That's completely different index. That's a number of preceding siblings
in the source XML. You've asked for "index in the collection of nodes
it belongs to", which can be any depending on the collection.
E.g. when you select all "fruit" elements, above expression won't give
you index of an element in that collection.

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Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Marina wrote:

I found a way to do it via XPATH, something like this works:

node.SelectNodes("preceding-sibling::*").Count

That's completely different index. That's a number of preceding siblings
in the source XML. You've asked for "index in the collection of nodes
it belongs to", which can be any depending on the collection.
E.g. when you select all "fruit" elements, above expression won't give
you index of an element in that collection.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Marina]

I think that really depends what you think of as its index in the
collection. If we are talking about lot's of nested nodes, then what does
'index' really mean? Relative to what?

So to me, it means, in it's collection of siblings, because I don't see what
other index there could be.

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
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Marina wrote:

I found a way to do it via XPATH, something like this works:

node.SelectNodes("preceding-sibling::*").Count

That's completely different index. That's a number of preceding siblings
in the source XML. You've asked for "index in the collection of nodes
it belongs to", which can be any depending on the collection.
E.g. when you select all "fruit" elements, above expression won't give
you index of an element in that collection.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Marina]

I think that really depends what you think of as its index in the
collection. If we are talking about lot's of nested nodes, then what does
'index' really mean? Relative to what?

So to me, it means, in it's collection of siblings, because I don't see what
other index there could be.

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
news:ey**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Marina wrote:

I found a way to do it via XPATH, something like this works:

node.SelectNodes("preceding-sibling::*").Count

That's completely different index. That's a number of preceding siblings
in the source XML. You've asked for "index in the collection of nodes
it belongs to", which can be any depending on the collection.
E.g. when you select all "fruit" elements, above expression won't give
you index of an element in that collection.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Marina wrote:

I think that really depends what you think of as its index in the
collection. If we are talking about lot's of nested nodes, then what does
'index' really mean?
Well, that's simple misunderstanding. We used to think in terms of XPath
model and in XPath index (position) of a node in collection (nodeset)
is defined as just position of node in the nodeset (not a number of
preceding siblings). You can have a nodeset of anything (nested or not
nested nodes) and then iterate over it getting current position via
position() function.
So to me, it means, in it's collection of siblings, because I don't see what
other index there could be.

E.g. when a collection (nodeset) consists of all <apple> elements across
the whole document (//apple), then position of each <apple> element is
its position in that nodeset.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Marina wrote:

I think that really depends what you think of as its index in the
collection. If we are talking about lot's of nested nodes, then what does
'index' really mean?
Well, that's simple misunderstanding. We used to think in terms of XPath
model and in XPath index (position) of a node in collection (nodeset)
is defined as just position of node in the nodeset (not a number of
preceding siblings). You can have a nodeset of anything (nested or not
nested nodes) and then iterate over it getting current position via
position() function.
So to me, it means, in it's collection of siblings, because I don't see what
other index there could be.

E.g. when a collection (nodeset) consists of all <apple> elements across
the whole document (//apple), then position of each <apple> element is
its position in that nodeset.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[deadman_freddy]

Marina wrote:

*I think that really depends what you think of as its index in the
collection. If we are talking about lot's of nested nodes, then what
does
'index' really mean? Relative to what?

So to me, it means, in it's collection of siblings, because I don't
see what
other index there could be.

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in
message
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Marina wrote:
That's completely different index. That's a number of preceding

siblings

in the source XML. You've asked for "index in the collection of

nodes

it belongs to", which can be any depending on the collection.
E.g. when you select all "fruit" elements, above expression won't

give

you index of an element in that collection.

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Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com *

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