Reading XML file in C# with XpathNavigator

Question

I am trying to read the book.xml file provided as an example on the MSDN website.

Answer 1

you can also use this "//title" instead of "/bookstore/book"

Answer 2

You can iterate over the titles if you change the XPath expression to select all title nodes:

XPathDocument document = new XPathDocument(@"c:\tmp\smpl5.xml");
XPathNavigator navigator = document.CreateNavigator();

XPathNodeIterator nodes = navigator.Select("/bookstore/book/title");

foreach (XPathNavigator item in nodes)
{
    Console.WriteLine(item.Value);
}

Note that you don't need to create an XmlDocument if you don't plan to modify the document. Using an XPathDocument is usually more light-weight.