Sets the value of the current node.
(in System.Xml.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Overridable Sub SetValue ( _
value As String _
)
Dim instance As XPathNavigator
Dim value As String
instance.SetValue(value)
public virtual void SetValue(
string value
)
public:
virtual void SetValue(
String^ value
)
public function SetValue(
value : String
)
If the XPathNavigator is positioned on an element node with complex content (child elements), calling the SetValue method replaces the child elements with a text node containing the new string value.
The SetValue method cannot update the root node or namespace nodes.
In the following example, the SetValue method is used to update all price elements in the contosoBooks.xml file using the XmlNamespaceManager object to resolve namespace prefixes in the XPath expression.
Dim document As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument()
document.Load("contosoBooks.xml")
Dim navigator As XPathNavigator = document.CreateNavigator()
Dim manager As XmlNamespaceManager = New XmlNamespaceManager(navigator.NameTable)
manager.AddNamespace("bk", "http://www.contoso.com/books")
For Each nav As XPathNavigator In navigator.Select("//bk:price", manager)
If nav.Value = "11.99" Then
nav.SetValue("12.99")
End If
Next
Console.WriteLine(navigator.OuterXml)
XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
document.Load("contosoBooks.xml");
XPathNavigator navigator = document.CreateNavigator();
XmlNamespaceManager manager = new XmlNamespaceManager(navigator.NameTable);
manager.AddNamespace("bk", "http://www.contoso.com/books");
foreach (XPathNavigator nav in navigator.Select("//bk:price", manager))
{
if (nav.Value == "11.99")
{
nav.SetValue("12.99");
}
}
Console.WriteLine(navigator.OuterXml);
XmlDocument^ document = gcnew XmlDocument();
document->Load("contosoBooks.xml");
XPathNavigator^ navigator = document->CreateNavigator();
XmlNamespaceManager^ manager = gcnew XmlNamespaceManager(navigator->NameTable);
manager->AddNamespace("bk", "http://www.contoso.com/books");
for each (XPathNavigator^ nav in navigator->Select("//bk:price", manager))
{
if(nav->Value == "11.99")
{
nav->SetValue("12.99");
}
}
Console::WriteLine(navigator->OuterXml);
The example takes the contosoBooks.xml file as an input.
<bookstore xmlns="http://www.contoso.com/books">
<book genre="autobiography" publicationdate="1981-03-22" ISBN="1-861003-11-0">
<title>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title>
<author>
<first-name>Benjamin</first-name>
<last-name>Franklin</last-name>
</author>
<price>8.99</price>
</book>
<book genre="novel" publicationdate="1967-11-17" ISBN="0-201-63361-2">
<title>The Confidence Man</title>
<author>
<first-name>Herman</first-name>
<last-name>Melville</last-name>
</author>
<price>11.99</price>
</book>
<book genre="philosophy" publicationdate="1991-02-15" ISBN="1-861001-57-6">
<title>The Gorgias</title>
<author>
<name>Plato</name>
</author>
<price>9.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98
The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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