使用XPath查询XML

<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”utf-8” ?>
<Book>
  <Title>Les Misérables</Title>
  <Author>Victor Hugo</Author>
  <Source Retrieved=”2009-02-14T00:00:00”>
    <URL>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/135/135.txt</URL>
  </Source>
  <Chapters>
    <Chapter>M. Myriel</Chapter>
    <Chapter>M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome</Chapter>
    <Chapter>A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop</Chapter>
    <Chapter>Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long</Chapter>
    <Chapter>Who guarded his House for him</Chapter>
    <Chapter>Cravatte</Chapter>
    <Chapter>Philosophy after Drinking</Chapter>
    <Chapter>The Brother as depicted by the Sister</Chapter>
    <Chapter>The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light</Chapter>
    <Chapter>A Restriction</Chapter>
    <Chapter>The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome</Chapter>
    <Chapter>What he believed</Chapter>
    <Chapter>What he thought</Chapter>
    <Chapter>...far too many more...</Chapter>
  </Chapters>
</Book>

设文件名为：Les.xml

XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument(“LesMis.xml”);
XPathNavigator navigator = doc.CreateNavigator();
XPathNodeIterator iter = navigator.Select(“/Book/Chapters/Chapter”);

while (iter.MoveNext())
{
  Console.WriteLine(“Chapter: {0}”, iter.Current.Value);
}

Console.WriteLine(“Found {0} chapters”,
navigator.Evaluate(“count(/Book/Chapters/Chapter)”));

输出的是所有chapter的名称：

Chapter: M. Myriel

Chapter: M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome

Chapter: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop

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Chapter: Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long

Chapter: Who guarded his House for him

Chapter: Cravatte

Chapter: Philosophy after Drinking

Chapter: The Brother as depicted by the Sister

Chapter: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light

Chapter: A Restriction

Chapter: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome

Chapter: What he believed

Chapter: What he thought

Chapter: ...far too many more...

Found 14 chapters