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XmlDocument SelectSingleNode of improperly formed XML

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The XML is well formed XML. It would not load into a XmlDocument otherwise.

The only ChildNodes of library are dept nodes.

To get lecturer, you can do the following:

XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("library/dept/lecturer");

Oded 2010-04-13 12:44:31

+1 (with that small edit :) )

Jeff Sternal 2010-04-13 13:04:42

Thanks @Jeff :)

Oded 2010-04-13 13:21:29

Thanks Jeff. I missed one more tag in there. <location>. How do I get to lecturer tag now?<library> <dept> <books></books> <language></language> </dept> <location></location> <dept> <lecturer></lecturer> </dept> </library>Thank youSid

Reddy S R 2010-04-14 06:17:02

@user315445 (Sid) - it doesn't change, as the `location` tag is in the same _level_ as `dept`.

Oded 2010-04-14 06:41:11

Actually I had to parse a csproj file but I had problems in getting the PostBuildEvent tag. So, instead of using selectSingleNode, I used GetElementsByTagName(). And it solved my problem.Thanks for the answer Jeff else I would have spent more time on SelectSingleNode method.

Reddy S R 2010-04-14 07:00:38

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To parse csproj file, use GetElementsByTagName(). I dont know why SelectSingleNode() is not working!

Thank you Sid

Reddy S R 2010-04-14 07:02:26

If this is a new question, you should add it as a new question. For info, with csproj the issue is usually that it is namespaced xml, which is... trickier.

Marc Gravell 2010-04-14 12:05:15

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