XmlDocument and XmlNode

[Siu]

Hi,
I've loaded an XmlDocument from a file XML: this file has many similar
XmlNode and it is difficult to select them by using SelectSingleNode of the
object XmlDocument.

I've this question: is it possible to identify each XmlNode of the
XmlDocument by using an inner key or something like that ?
I precise that I 'm not allowed to change the file XML, therefore I can't
add any key element or attribute in each node.

Thank in advance

[Martin Honnen]

Siu wrote:

I've loaded an XmlDocument from a file XML: this file has many similar
XmlNode and it is difficult to select them by using SelectSingleNode of the
object XmlDocument.

I've this question: is it possible to identify each XmlNode of the
XmlDocument by using an inner key or something like that ?
I precise that I 'm not allowed to change the file XML, therefore I can't
add any key element or attribute in each node.

If you have unique id attributes in the document then you can use
GetElementById. XPath also has an id function. But that of course
requires that you have a DTD or schema declaring attributes of type ID
and the elements have a unique id attribute value.

If you need to have keys you might want to look into XSLT, it has the
<xsl:key> instruction and the key function.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Nigel Armstrong]

Hi Siu

If you had a document like this:

<Root>
<Child>A</Child
<Child>A</Child>
</Root>

even though the name and content of the Child elements is the same, you can
use a positional predicate in your XPath expression to select each one in
turn: for example /Root/Child[1] and /Root/Child[2]. Will that approach not
work for your documents?

HTH

Nigel Armstrong

"Siu" wrote:

Hi,
I've loaded an XmlDocument from a file XML: this file has many similar
XmlNode and it is difficult to select them by using SelectSingleNode of the
object XmlDocument.

I've this question: is it possible to identify each XmlNode of the
XmlDocument by using an inner key or something like that ?
I precise that I 'm not allowed to change the file XML, therefore I can't
add any key element or attribute in each node.

Thank in advance

[Siu]

Thanks Nigel.... this is the answer I was looking for :)

"Nigel Armstrong" wrote:

Hi Siu

If you had a document like this:

<Root>
<Child>A</Child
<Child>A</Child>
</Root>

even though the name and content of the Child elements is the same, you can
use a positional predicate in your XPath expression to select each one in
turn: for example /Root/Child[1] and /Root/Child[2]. Will that approach not
work for your documents?

HTH

Nigel Armstrong

"Siu" wrote:

Hi,
I've loaded an XmlDocument from a file XML: this file has many similar
XmlNode and it is difficult to select them by using SelectSingleNode of the
object XmlDocument.

I've this question: is it possible to identify each XmlNode of the
XmlDocument by using an inner key or something like that ?
I precise that I 'm not allowed to change the file XML, therefore I can't
add any key element or attribute in each node.

Thank in advance