How to get element content using only XPath and C# .NET

Question

I\'ve found a lot of articles about how to get node content by using simple XPath expression and C#, for example:

XPath:

/bookstore/author/first-nam         


        

Answer 1

After googling c# .net xpath for few seconds you'll find this article, which provides example which you can easily modify to use XPathDocument, XPathNavigator and XPathNavigator::SelectSingleNode():

XPathNavigator nav;
XPathDocument docNav;
string xPath;

docNav = new XPathDocument("c:\\books.xml");
nav = docNav.CreateNavigator();
xPath = "/Cell/CellContent/Para/ParaLine/String/text()";

string value = nav.SelectSingleNode(xPath).Value

I recommend more reading on xPath syntax. Much more.

Answer 2

You can use Linq to XML as well to get value of specified element

var list = XDocument.Parse("xml string").Descendants("ParaLine")
                 .Select(x => x.Element("string").Value).ToList();

From above query you will get value of all the string element which are inside ParaLine tag.

Answer 3

navigator.SelectSingleNode("/Cell/CellContent/Para/ParaLine/String/text()").Value