"Tom Clement" <tom@ElideThisApptero.com> wrote in message
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> I really believe it's possible to do what I want with a SelectNodes()
XPath
> query, but I'm lost. Any help would be appreciated. Suppose you have an
> XML document (like a WordProcessingML file) that has a bunch of elements
> embedded in it that conform to a schema, but each schema-defined
> parent/child relationship can have (an arbitrary number of) intervening
> elements from another namespace. I'm trying to do something simple, find
> all "children" (considering only my namespace) of a particular node. For
> example suppose you have something like:
>
> <w:wordDocument xmlns:w="http://theirs" xmlns:ns1="http://mine" >
> ...
> <w:body>
> <wx:sect>
> <ns1:ReportData>
> <w:pPr>
> <w:jc w:val="center" />
> </w:pPr>
> <w:p />
> <ns1:Solution>
> <w:p />
> <ns1:Requirements/>
> <w:p />
> </ns1:Solution>
> <w:p />
> <ns1:Path/>
> </ns1:ReportData>
> </wx:sect>
> </w:body>
> </w:wordDocument>
>
> Suppose I have an XmlElement corresponding to the <ns1:ReportData>
element.
> I know I can get all ns1: descendants using SelectNodes("//ns1:*", ...).
> But how in the world can I qualify this so that I only get the "child"
(sort
> of) descendants (within my namespace) which are <ns1:Solution> and
> <ns1:Path> but not nodes that are under one of those, like
> <ns1:Requirements>.
>
> Thanks for your help with this puzzler.
> Tom Clement
> Apptero, Inc.
>
>

"Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]" <dareo@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What you are trying to do is sometimes called subtree pruning or filtering
> and is beyond the capabilities of XPath. I'd suggest using XSLT to solve
> this problem.
>
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> "Tom Clement" <tom@ElideThisApptero.com> wrote in message
> news:eQZIO2qQEHA.3660@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I really believe it's possible to do what I want with a SelectNodes()
> XPath
> > query, but I'm lost. Any help would be appreciated. Suppose you have
an
> > XML document (like a WordProcessingML file) that has a bunch of elements
> > embedded in it that conform to a schema, but each schema-defined
> > parent/child relationship can have (an arbitrary number of) intervening
> > elements from another namespace. I'm trying to do something simple,
find
> > all "children" (considering only my namespace) of a particular node.
For
> > example suppose you have something like:
> >
> > <w:wordDocument xmlns:w="http://theirs" xmlns:ns1="http://mine" >
> > ...
> > <w:body>
> > <wx:sect>
> > <ns1:ReportData>
> > <w:pPr>
> > <w:jc w:val="center" />
> > </w:pPr>
> > <w:p />
> > <ns1:Solution>
> > <w:p />
> > <ns1:Requirements/>
> > <w:p />
> > </ns1:Solution>
> > <w:p />
> > <ns1:Path/>
> > </ns1:ReportData>
> > </wx:sect>
> > </w:body>
> > </w:wordDocument>
> >
> > Suppose I have an XmlElement corresponding to the <ns1:ReportData>
> element.
> > I know I can get all ns1: descendants using SelectNodes("//ns1:*", ...).
> > But how in the world can I qualify this so that I only get the "child"
> (sort
> > of) descendants (within my namespace) which are <ns1:Solution> and
> > <ns1:Path> but not nodes that are under one of those, like
> > <ns1:Requirements>.
> >
> > Thanks for your help with this puzzler.
> > Tom Clement
> > Apptero, Inc.
> >
> >
>
>