How to get the exact xpath?

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Hi,
I have the following xmldocument named as memberDoc:

XML

<ROOT>
  - <tblmembers>
    <facilityid>A</facilityid>
    <memberid>000000001</memberid>
    <additionalinfo>
      <adtsource>HIS</adtsource>
      <patientadditionalinfo id="1">
        <patempid>TMH</patempid>
        <patempname>THE METHODIST HOSPITAL</patempname>
        <patempstatus>F</patempstatus>
        <patempoccupation>IT</patempoccupation>
        <patempphone></patempphone>
        <patempaddress>6565 FANNIN</patempaddress>
        <patempaddress2></patempaddress2>
        <patempcity>HOUSTON</patempcity>
        <patempstate>TX</patempstate>
        <patempzipcode>77030</patempzipcode>
        <patempcountry>USA</patempcountry>
        <patempstartdate>20100101</patempstartdate>
        <patempretirementdate></patempretirementdate>
        <address3>ADDRESS3</address3>
        <oldmemberid></oldmemberid>
        <mname></mname>
        <hipaaonfile></hipaaonfile>
        <hipaadate>12/14/2010</hipaadate>
        <race>C</race>
        <language></language>
        <religion>ANG</religion>
        <primcarephysicianid>002249</primcarephysicianid>
        <primcarephysicianlname>CAGE</primcarephysicianlname>
        <primcarephysicianfname>JAMES</primcarephysicianfname>
        <primcarephysicianmname>WILLIAM</primcarephysicianmname>
        <balance></balance>
      </patientadditionalinfo>
    </additionalinfo>
  </tblmembers>
</ROOT>

Now I need to fetch the <race> which is inside [tblmembers/additionalinfo/patientadditionalinfo[@id='1']].
I have written the following code:

XmlNodeList member_nodes;                
 member_nodes = memberDoc.SelectNodes("//tblmembers");

string retvalue=member_nodes[0].SelectSingleNode("//additionalinfo/patientadditionalinfo[@id='1']/race").InnerText;

Here I am getting the as "".
Can you please help me what should be the correct XPath or where exactly I am missing?

Thanks in advance,
Avishek

Posted 1-Feb-12 2:14am

avishekrc

Updated 1-Feb-12 2:20am

Rajesh Anuhya

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2012-02-01T02:45:00

Solution 1

What's wrong with

C#

string retvalue = memberDoc.SelectSingleNode("ROOT/tblmembers/additionalinfo/patientadditionalinfo[@id='1']/race").InnerText;

?

Posted 1-Feb-12 2:45am

CPallini

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avishekrc 1-Feb-12 9:13am

Upto memberDoc.SelectSingleNode("ROOT/tblmembers/additionalinfo").InnerText is working fine.
Whenever I am giving memberDoc.SelectSingleNode("ROOT/tblmembers/additionalinfo/patientadditionalinfo[@id='1']").InnerText...it is coming as null.

CPallini 1-Feb-12 9:21am

Strange enough, I got correctly "C".

Amir Mahfoozi 1-Feb-12 10:05am

+5 It works CPallini :)

Amir Mahfoozi · Answer 2 · 2012-02-01T04:04:00

I copied and pasted what you have provided into a file named "test.xml" (of course removed that extra dash from second line)

and tested this code :

C#

XmlDocument rawXMLData = new XmlDocument();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(@"d:\test.xml");

rawXMLData.LoadXml(reader.ReadToEnd());

var result = rawXMLData.SelectNodes("ROOT/tblmembers/additionalinfo/patientadditionalinfo[@id='1']/race");

foreach (XmlNode node in result)
   Console.WriteLine(node.Name + " = " + node.InnerText);

Console.ReadLine();

And it prints :

race = C

However I can write the XPath but I took the XPath from Pallini's answer ;)

Hope it helps.