> Hello,
>
> I am interested in getting the XML contents as text between two XML
elements
> that I know follow each other. They could be in completely different
levels,
> but in XML file the first is above the second. Of course, a code could be
> written that would first read InnerXml property of the start tag, extract
> the opening parens <starttag>, then read all text nodes within, then do
the
> same with child nodes, then with start tag next siblings, then back up to
> parent node and advance to next parent sibling, etc, etc, until the end
node
> is met. But that seems like exhaustive thing to do, and I am wondering if
> there's some normal shorter way to do this. Now I know from XML-speak,
that
> there is such thing as XPointers, that allow some syntax to select a range
> of characters. Perhaps it's kinda underdeveloped standard, as I don't see
> much talk about using XPointers in .NET framework. Anyway, I don't really
> care for standard, all I'd like to be able is to provide to method two
> parameters - starting element node and ending element node, and it would
> return string of non-self-contained XML what's between (including the
start
> element node itself)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Pavils
>
> Some examples for reference
>
> Input:
>
> <blah>
> <startTag>
> <foo>
> <too>
> <endTag/>
> </foo>
> </foo>
> </startTag>
> </blah>
>
> result:
> <startTag>
> <foo>
> <too>
>
> Input:
>
> <blah>
> <too>
> <foo>
> <too>
> <startTag/>
> </foo>
> </foo>
> </foo>
> <endTag/>
> </blah>
>
> restult:
> <startTag/>
> </foo>
> </foo>
> </foo>
>
>