Clearing Only inner text and not the childnodes

Question

I have an xml as below

< Image>ImageValue11
<Type>png</Type>
<Value>ImageValue11</ Value>
</ Image>

Here ImageValue1 is present in two places.I want to remove innerText for Image node which is the parent.For which i am usign below code

XmlNode customImageNode = imagedoc.SelectSingleNode("//Image");
customImageNode.InnerText = string.empty;

But this is clearing the child nodes as well.Please let me know how to clear this test off .Looking for a generic solution.

Answer 1

I believe what you need to do is select just the text node of the Image node. You do this like this:

XmlNode customImageNodeTextNode = imageDoc.SelectSingleNode("//Image/text()");
customImageNodeTextNode.InnerText = string.Empty;

I just tested the above code and it worked for me. Good luck!

Answer 2

try doing: customImageNode.Value= string.empty;

update: sorry for the mistake. It's supposed to be like so: customImageNode.RemoveChild(customImageNode.FirstChild);, since the inner text of the node is it's first child in this case. I've checked it and it works.