XML parsing

[Xarky]

Hi,
I'm newbie to XML parsing. I have the following XML document and
would like to extract the age for a specific person.

Can you please give me some specific links, of how I can achieve this.

<tags>
<tag>
<person>
name1
<\person>
<age>
34
<\age>
<\tag>
<tag>
<person>
name2
<\person>
<age>
43
<\age>
<\tag>
<\tags>

Thanks in Advance

 

[John M Deal]

Take a look at these pages on XPath:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/xmrefxpathexamples.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...-us/xmlsdk/html/xmreflocationpathexamples.asp

You should be able to use it to construct the location statement that
you'll need to use with the SelectSingleNode() method of the XmlDocument
object that you load you Xml into.

Here's a sample of what you'll need for this one:

string name = "name1";
string xpathExpression =
String.Format("/tags/tag/age[preceding-sibling:erson='{0}' or
following-sibling:erson='{0}']", name);

I'm not in front of a dev box right now so I can't test this out;
however it should be pretty close. Play with it a bit and you'll get it
working.

Have A Better One!

John M Deal, MCP
Necessity Software