how to get the element whose children fulfill the requirements

[jerry.xuddd]

Hello,

I actually have two questions:

I have a xml like this:
<tab>
<category name="Software" > Test purpose
<subcategory name="Software">
<method url="addSoftware.aspx">Add</method>
<method url="editSoftware.aspx">Edit</method>
<method url="searchSoftware.aspx">Search</method>
</subcategory>
</category>
</tab>
1. How can I select the the category noe whose child (subcategory)'s name is
"Software"?
I tried Xpath expression "/tabs/category/subcategory[@name='Software']", but
it gives me the child node. Can someone tell me how to get the parent node
directly?

2. When I create XpthNodeIterator nav and use nav.Value to get the text of
node "Category", I actually gets the concatenated values of the node and all
its child nodes (e.g., in above example, I got Test purposeAddeditsearch).
Which method should I call to get just the text of one node (e.g. just get
"Test purpose" not "Test purposeAddeditsearch")?

Many Thanks
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hello, please help

[Harish Ranganathan]

Hi Jerry,

First a small clarification. In the XML Fragment you have posted, your root
tag is "tab" whereas in the XPATH, you have specified it as "tabs". I assume
"tabs" is the root and it will contain a collection of "tab" nodes. Having
this in mind, the expression to get the parent node is

/tabs/tab/category[subcategory[@name='Software']]

to get the name attribute of Category (which value is also Software)

/tabs/tab/category[subcategory[@name='Software']]/@name

For the Xpathnodeiterator, you need to create another iterator which will
loop through the Category and get the respective values.

Or you can use Xpathnodeiterator.current.value.

Thanks.

"jerry.xuddd" wrote:

Hello,

I actually have two questions:

I have a xml like this:
<tab>
<category name="Software" > Test purpose
<subcategory name="Software">
<method url="addSoftware.aspx">Add</method>
<method url="editSoftware.aspx">Edit</method>
<method url="searchSoftware.aspx">Search</method>
</subcategory>
</category>
</tab>
1. How can I select the the category noe whose child (subcategory)'s name is
"Software"?
I tried Xpath expression "/tabs/category/subcategory[@name='Software']", but
it gives me the child node. Can someone tell me how to get the parent node
directly?

2. When I create XpthNodeIterator nav and use nav.Value to get the text of
node "Category", I actually gets the concatenated values of the node and all
its child nodes (e.g., in above example, I got Test purposeAddeditsearch).
Which method should I call to get just the text of one node (e.g. just get
"Test purpose" not "Test purposeAddeditsearch")?

Many Thanks
--
hello, please help