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How do I get a certain XmlNode?

I thought I could iterate through the CholdNodes belonging to the root node returned from SelectSingleNode() and find my node. I can seee it in the InnerXML so I know it's there. But I do not want to parse the XML like it's text to get the value out.

How can I iterate through it? The attached recursive function I wrote, I thought, would solve the problem. But it does not.

Does anyone know how I can get the XmlNode node for a given XmlTag?

Thanks!

private XmlNode GetNode(XmlNode node, string xmlTag)
        {
            if (node != null && node.HasChildNodes)
            {
                foreach (XmlNode childNode in node.ChildNodes)
                {
                    if (childNode.Name == xmlTag)
                    {
                        return childNode;
                    }
                    if (childNode.HasChildNodes)
                    {
                        return GetNode(childNode, xmlTag);
                    }
                }
            }
            return null;
        }

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kaufmed

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curiouswebster

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Thanks. I see the difference that change makes. But it still does not extract an XmlNode.

I think my problem is that the Name property does not match the name="myName".

For example, the name might be "message" since that's the tag we defined, thusly.

<messages>
<message name="myName">
<![CDATA[My Message]]>
</message>
</messages>

The tag is "myName" and the content I want to get out is "My Message".

I am confused because the Name of the node is "message" and I do not know how to get the value associated with name=.

Can I get that by modifying my function? If so, how?

private static XmlNode GetNode(XmlNode node, string xmlTag)
        {
            if (node != null)
            {
                if (node.Name == xmlTag)
                {
                    return node;
                }
                if (node.HasChildNodes)
                {
                    foreach (XmlNode childNode in node.ChildNodes)
                    {
                        if (childNode.Name == xmlTag)
                        {
                            return childNode;
                        }
                        if (childNode.HasChildNodes)
                        {
                            XmlNode result = GetNode(childNode, xmlTag);

                            if (result != null)
                            {
                                return result;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            return null;
        }

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Miguel Oz

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curiouswebster

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Thanks. I am new to xpath and really did not want to re-invent the wheel. Cheers!

curiouswebster

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Thanks!