"Martin Honnen" <Martin.Honnen@t-online.de> wrote in message
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>
>
> Robert Strickland wrote:
>
> > I load an xml stream into a xpathdocument type, compile a xpath
expression
> > and select to specific node. I find the node and wish to return the
innerxml
> > of that node. When I use value of the current node I get back the
"values"
> > of the child nodes but no formatted xml which I need for transformations
> > later in the sequence. Is there a way to pull pure xml from the
> > xpathdocument?
>
> If you need access to the nodes as XmlNode objects then you need an
> XmlDocument and not an XPathDocument, for instance try
>
>
> using System;
> using System.Xml;
> using System.Xml.XPath;
>
> public class Test20031228 {
>
> public static void Main (string[] args) {
> XPathDocument xpathDocument = new XPathDocument(@"test20031228.xml");
> XPathNavigator xpathNavigator = xpathDocument.CreateNavigator();
> TestXPathNavigator(xpathNavigator);
>
> XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
> xmlDocument.Load(@"test20031228.xml");
> xpathNavigator = xmlDocument.CreateNavigator();
> TestXPathNavigator(xpathNavigator);
> }
>
> static void TestXPathNavigator (XPathNavigator xpathNavigator) {
> XPathExpression xpathExpression = xpathNavigator.Compile("/*");
> XPathNodeIterator nodeIterator =
> xpathNavigator.Select(xpathExpression);
> while (nodeIterator.MoveNext()) {
> xpathNavigator = nodeIterator.Current;
> IHasXmlNode hasXmlNode = xpathNavigator as IHasXmlNode;
> if (hasXmlNode != null) {
> XmlNode currentNode = hasXmlNode.GetNode();
> Console.WriteLine(currentNode.InnerXml);
> }
> else {
> Console.WriteLine("Can't access nodes.");
> }
> }
> }
>
> }
>
> and you will find that the cast to IHasXmlNode (which has the GetNode
> method) fails for the navigator created from the XPathDocument while it
> works for the navigator created from the XmlDocument.
> --
>
> Martin Honnen
>
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/ >
