How to get attribute value using SelectSingleNode?

Question

I am parsing a xml document, I need find out the gid (an attribute) value (3810).

Based on SelectSingleNode(). I found it is not easy to find the attri

Answer 1

You can query XmlDocument itself not DocumentRoot:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
XmlNode book = doc.SelectSingleNode("..");
if (book != null)
{
    XmlAttribute gid = book.Attributes["gid"];
    if (gid != null)
    {
       string value = gid.Value;
    }
}