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Processing Instructions in XML

I need to read in the Processing instruction from an XML file and place it in a variable...

XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>
<doc>
.....................................................................
</doc>

I need to read the href attribute out of the xml-stylesheet element.

drichards

If this is in a file, then here's one way to get it:

      System.Xml.XmlTextReader rdr = new System.Xml.XmlTextReader("<filename>");
      while ( rdr.Read() )
      {
            if ( rdr.NodeType == System.Xml.XmlNodeType.ProcessingInstruction )
            {
                  // rdr.Value has 'type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"' - parse out what you need
                  // rdr.Name has 'xml-stylesheet'
            }
      }

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JHalstead

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It's works great, thanks, one question though. rdr.Value returnes both the HREF and the TYPE, I would liek to return just the HREF. I was thinking of creating an XML node from this returned info and selecting the HREF attribute, but I thought you might know an easier way.

JHalstead

ASKER

Ok, never mind I got that part, it was easier than I though.