How can I use XPath to get elements?

Question

My XML is like:

<root>
  <section name="blah">
    <item name="asdf">2222</item>
  </section>
</root>

I will have multiple 'sections' in the XML, I want to fetch a particular section.

In this case, I need to get items that are in the section named "blah".

Answer 1

The xpath is then:

/root/section[@name='blah']/item

for example, in XmlDocument:

foreach(XmlElement item in doc.SelectNodes("/root/section[@name='blah']/item"))
{
     Console.WriteLine(item.GetAttribute("name"));
     Console.WriteLine(item.InnerText);
}

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Edit re comments: if you just want the sections, then use:

/root/section[@name='blah']

but then you'll need to iterate the data manually (since you can theoretically have multiple sections named "blah", each of which can have multiple items).