Finding elements with XPath in Delphi

Question

I am trying to find an element in an XML document in Delphi. I have this code, but it always says 0 elements in the log:

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Answer 1

IXMLDOMDocument.Load() does not raise an exception if something goes wrong with your file or with its content. Try the following to be sure there is nothing bad with it:

...
Doc.load(Filename);
if Doc.parseError.errorCode <> 0 then
  ShowMessage('Error : ' + + Doc.parseError.reason) 
else
  ShowMessage('No problem so far !');
...

I suck at XPath but maybe if html is your root node you don't need to include it in your query string, so try the following :

List:=Doc.selectNodes('//html/head');

or

List:=Doc.selectNodes('//head');