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XPathNavigator::SelectSingleNode Method (String^)

 

Selects a single node in the XPathNavigator using the specified XPath query.

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

public:
virtual XPathNavigator^ SelectSingleNode(
	String^ xpath
)

Parameters

xpath
Type: System::String^

A String representing an XPath expression.

Return Value

Type: System.Xml.XPath::XPathNavigator^

An XPathNavigator object that contains the first matching node for the XPath query specified; otherwise, null if there are no query results.

Exception Condition
ArgumentException

An error was encountered in the XPath query or the return type of the XPath expression is not a node.

XPathException

The XPath query is not valid.

The SelectSingleNode method selects the first node that matches the XPath query in the XPathNavigator object.

The following example selects a single node from the XPathNavigator based on the XPath query specified.

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

XPathNavigator^ node = navigator->SelectSingleNode("//title");
Console::WriteLine(node->InnerXml);

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


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