Hello,

I want change my application to support language files from xml and I
created a language.xml - but my problem is now that I am not able to get a
specific element value back from a node (wanted to use XPath):

xml looks like this:

<language>
<MainDialog>
<panel>
<title>Main Panel</title>
</panel>
</MainDialog>
</language>

I loaded the document with an XmlTextReader to a XmlDocument and wanted to
use the following which has unfortunately no value:

doc.SelectSingleNode("/language/MainDialog/panel").Attributes["title"].Value.ToString();

What am I doing wrong?? Thanks for any help in advance.

BR, juvi

Title is not an attribute, it's a child node.


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"juvi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:BDEA095B-8394-451D-ADE4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I want change my application to support language files from xml and I
> created a language.xml - but my problem is now that I am not able to get a
> specific element value back from a node (wanted to use XPath):
>
> xml looks like this:
>
> <language>
> <MainDialog>
> <panel>
> <title>Main Panel</title>
> </panel>
> </MainDialog>
> </language>
>
> I loaded the document with an XmlTextReader to a XmlDocument and wanted to
> use the following which has unfortunately no value:
>
> doc.SelectSingleNode("/language/MainDialog/panel").Attributes["title"].Value.ToString();
>
> What am I doing wrong?? Thanks for any help in advance.
>
> BR, juvi

Thx for reply....ok....if I change the xpath to:

"/language/MainDialog/panel/title"

which method throws me the wanted value back? (I am sorry for this basic
question but I a completly new to System.XML and the documentation did not
help for me)

juvi

no matter what I try ... I do not get any value back...only an empty string??
looking forward to your reply...

juvi

Hi,

"juvi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9850EC5E-6965-4B76-BD43-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thx for reply....ok....if I change the xpath to:
> "/language/MainDialog/panel/title"
> which method throws me the wanted value back?

How about XmlNode's InnerText property, for example:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(@"
<language>
<MainDialog>
<panel>
<title>Main Panel</title>
</panel>
</MainDialog>
</language>");
XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("/language/MainDialog/panel/title");
Debug.WriteLine(node.InnerText);

Hope this helps,
Christopher Fairbairn

thx for reply.... I tried it now but again: the result is empty when trying
to select through XPath....if going down with nodeindexes then it works ??
strange ... would be happy to get it work with XPath

XNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("/language/MainDialog/panel/title");
s = XNode.InnerText.ToString(); // does not work

s = doc.ChildNodes.Item(0).ChildNodes.Item(0).FirstChild.InnerText; // works

anybody knows what the problem could be?


thx

Now it works....thank you all....there was a problem with my xmlreader
code...thx juvi

"Christopher Fairbairn [MVP]" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "juvi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:9850EC5E-6965-4B76-BD43-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Thx for reply....ok....if I change the xpath to:
> > "/language/MainDialog/panel/title"
> > which method throws me the wanted value back?
>
> How about XmlNode's InnerText property, for example:
>
> XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
> doc.LoadXml(@"
> <language>
> <MainDialog>
> <panel>
> <title>Main Panel</title>
> </panel>
> </MainDialog>
> </language>");
> XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("/language/MainDialog/panel/title");
> Debug.WriteLine(node.InnerText);
>
> Hope this helps,
> Christopher Fairbairn
>
>
>

If you're using CF 3.5 you could use LINQ to XML - it's alot easier than
XPath.
--
Simon Hart
Visual Developer - Device Application Development MVP
http://www.simonrhart.com

"juvi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:272AA2EE-82AD-4376-A13F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Now it works....thank you all....there was a problem with my xmlreader
> code...thx juvi
>
> "Christopher Fairbairn [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> "juvi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:9850EC5E-6965-4B76-BD43-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Thx for reply....ok....if I change the xpath to:
>> > "/language/MainDialog/panel/title"
>> > which method throws me the wanted value back?
>>
>> How about XmlNode's InnerText property, for example:
>>
>> XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
>> doc.LoadXml(@"
>> <language>
>> <MainDialog>
>> <panel>
>> <title>Main Panel</title>
>> </panel>
>> </MainDialog>
>> </language>");
>> XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("/language/MainDialog/panel/title");
>> Debug.WriteLine(node.InnerText);
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Christopher Fairbairn
>>
>>
>>