Microsoft XML - Returning subset of xml document as string

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Returning subset of xml document as string

Onur

2005-09-20, 4:24 am

Hi,
I have a problem with finding a particular XML fragment within a document. I
want to locate the XML fragment within a document containing a given node,
its children, and grandchildren, and write that subset of the document as a
string (including all XML the tags and attributes) to a database table.

Using .net and XPath I can locate the node I wish to find, and get a
XPathNodeIterator back, but this doesn't give me the structure with all the
xml tags. Is there a way to select a "subdocument" of nodes from an
xmldocument and return it as a string including the structure?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Onur

2005-09-27, 3:29 am

Try the following code snippet.
using System;
using System.Xml;
using System.Threading;
namespace loadxml
{
class Class1
{
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(new XmlTextReader(@"D:\fruitfruit.xml"));
XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode(@"/NewDataSet/Table");
Console.WriteLine(node.OuterXml);
Thread.Sleep(5000);
}
}
}

and the XML file looks like the following:
<NewDataSet>
<Table>
<name>onega</name>
<url>www.fruitfruit.com</url>
</Table>
</NewDataSet>

"Onur" <Onur@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:81A07AD3-3D28-4B92-9CB6-4948D72E3474@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I have a problem with finding a particular XML fragment within a document.
> I
> want to locate the XML fragment within a document containing a given node,
> its children, and grandchildren, and write that subset of the document as
> a
> string (including all XML the tags and attributes) to a database table.
>
> Using .net and XPath I can locate the node I wish to find, and get a
> XPathNodeIterator back, but this doesn't give me the structure with all
> the
> XML tags. Is there a way to select a "subdocument" of nodes from an
> xmldocument and return it as a string including the structure?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Onur