How to get value of attribute (XPath)?

[LJB]

I've been trying to return the value of an attribute named "server" but keep
getting an XPathSelectionIterator. What do I need to change? The following
returns "1" which is what I expected.
Console.WriteLine(nav.Evaluate("count(//location[@office='JAC'])"));
I'm thinking it should be something like
Console.WriteLine(nav.Evaluate("//location[@office='JAC']/@server"));
but that doesn't give me the value.

thanks
LJB

[Martin Honnen]

If you want to access a single node you might want to use
SelectSingleNode instead of Evaluate, that way you get an XPathNavigator
and can access the Value property e.g.

XPathNavigator server =
nav.SelectSingleNode("//location[@office='JAC']/@server");
if (server != null) // XPath found node
{
Console.WriteLine(server.Value);
}
else // handle case that no node was found
{
//
}

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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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[LJB]

"Martin Honnen" <maho...@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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THANK YOU. It works perfectly.