XPathNavigator::MoveToFollowing Method (String^, String^)

 

Moves the XPathNavigator to the element with the local name and namespace URI specified in document order.

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

public:
virtual bool MoveToFollowing(
	String^ localName,
	String^ namespaceURI
)

Parameters

localName
Type: System::String^

The local name of the element.

namespaceURI
Type: System::String^

The namespace URI of the element.

Return Value

Type: System::Boolean

true if the XPathNavigator moved successfully; otherwise false.

If the MoveToFollowing method returns false, the position of the XPathNavigator is unchanged.

In the following example, the XPathNavigator is moved from the root of the contosoBooks.xml file to the first price element.

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

navigator->MoveToFollowing("price", "http://www.contoso.com/books");

Console::WriteLine("Position: {0}", navigator->Name);
Console::WriteLine(navigator->OuterXml);

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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