"mono" <mikeg@n_o_s_p_a_mcimage.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have a collection of XML strings and want to find those that match a
given
> XPath expression.
>
> I see lots of stuff to support evaluating the same expression against
> different nodes in a single document but as far as I can see, if I want
to
> evaluate the expression against different docs, I have to recreate it
> everytime.
>
> Is that correct?
>
> michael
>
>
>
>

"SQL Server Development Team [MSFT]" <sqldev@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Compile the expression using the Compile method on the XPathNavigator and
> cache the returned XPathExpression object. You can then use this object
for
> querying over differnt documents and you dont have to compile it every
time.
>
> XPathDocument doc1 = new XPathDocument("doc1.xml");
>
> XPathNavigator nav1 = doc1.CreateNavigator();
>
> XPathExpression expr = nav1.Compile("/");
>
> XPathDocument doc2 = new XPathDocument("dump.xml");
>
> XPathNavigator nav2 = doc2.CreateNavigator();
>
> return nav2.Matches(expr);
>
>
> -- Asad
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> "mono" <mikeg@n_o_s_p_a_mcimage.com> wrote in message
> news:%23X5vjTbYDHA.1744@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a collection of XML strings and want to find those that match a
> given
> > XPath expression.
> >
> > I see lots of stuff to support evaluating the same expression against
> > different nodes in a single document but as far as I can see, if I want
> to
> > evaluate the expression against different docs, I have to recreate it
> > everytime.
> >
> > Is that correct?
> >
> > michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>