How to access the total number of child nodes from a parent node

[MA]

Hi,

How to access the total number of child nodes from a parent node. For
example, I would like to get the total number of child nodes from
<parent1and <parent2node. The SelectNodes method return the total
number of <foldernodes (9) regardless of calling from the <parent1>
and <parent2node.

XML:
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<Mailbox DisplayName="test">
<parent1>
<folders>
<folder name="test001">
<folder name="test001"/>
<folder name="test003">
<folder name="test004">
<folder name="test005"/>
<folder name="test006"/>
</folder>
</folder>
</primary>

<parent2>
<folders>
<folder name="test007">
<folder name="test008">
<folder name="test009">
</folders>
</archive>
</Mailbox>
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My C# code return 9 childs for each execution. Correct result will be 6
for <parent1and 3 for the <parent2child node. Here is the code:
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// node = Mailbox node

foreach (XmlNode childNode in node.ChildNodes)
{
XmlNodeList folders = childNode.SelectNodes("//folder");
int total = folders.Count; <---- return 9.
}

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Thanks in advance.

- MA

[MA]

Please ignore the typo of the end tag </archiveand </primary>. Thanks
in advance.

[Patrick.O.Ige]

XmlNodeList folders = childNode.SelectNodes("//folder");
MA have u tried childNode.SelectNodes("/Parent/folder"); and
childNode.SelectNodes("/Parent2/folder");
Patrick
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Please ignore the typo of the end tag </archiveand </primary>. Thanks
in advance.

[Martin Honnen]

MA wrote:

foreach (XmlNode childNode in node.ChildNodes)
{
XmlNodeList folders = childNode.SelectNodes("//folder");

You need a relative XPath expression e.g.
childNode.SelectNodes("folder")
for all |folder| element child nodes or
childNode.SelectNodes(".//folder")
for all |folder| element descendant nodes.

If you have an XPath expression starting with / then it is always an
absolute XPath expression starting from the root node so it does not
help with SelectNodes/SelectSingleNode if you want to look at nodes
relative to the node you call the method on.


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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[MA]

Thanks "Martin", its working as expected.

Cheers,
MA