XPathNavigator::Select Method (String^, IXmlNamespaceResolver^)

 

Selects a node set using the specified XPath expression with the IXmlNamespaceResolver object specified to resolve namespace prefixes.

Namespace:   System.Xml.XPath
Assembly:  System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)

public:
virtual XPathNodeIterator^ Select(
	String^ xpath,
	IXmlNamespaceResolver^ resolver
)

Parameters

xpath
Type: System::String^

A String representing an XPath expression.

resolver
Type: System.Xml::IXmlNamespaceResolver^

The IXmlNamespaceResolver object used to resolve namespace prefixes.

Return Value

Type: System.Xml.XPath::XPathNodeIterator^

An XPathNodeIterator that points to the selected node set.

Exception Condition
ArgumentException

The XPath expression contains an error or its return type is not a node set.

XPathException

The XPath expression is not valid.

The following example illustrates selecting a node set using the Select method with the XmlNamespaceManager object specified to resolve namespace prefixes in the XPath expression.

      XPathDocument^ document = gcnew XPathDocument("contosoBooks.xml");
      XPathNavigator^ navigator = document->CreateNavigator();

      XmlNamespaceManager^ manager = gcnew XmlNamespaceManager(navigator->NameTable);
      manager->AddNamespace("bk", "http://www.contoso.com/books");

      XPathNodeIterator^ nodes = navigator->Select("/bk:bookstore/bk:book/bk:price", manager);
      // Move to the first node bk:price node.
      if(nodes->MoveNext())
      {
          // Now nodes.Current points to the first selected node.
	    XPathNavigator^ nodesNavigator = nodes->Current;

          // Select all the descendants of the current price node.
   XPathNodeIterator^ nodesText = nodesNavigator->SelectDescendants(XPathNodeType::Text, false);

          while(nodesText->MoveNext())
          {
Console::WriteLine(nodesText->Current->Value);
          }
      }

The example takes the contosoBooks.xml file as an input.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<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>

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
Silverlight
Available since 4.0
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