Count Nodes

[Derek Hart]

I wish to get a count of nodes in an xml file in vb.net, so I am using the
following, as a simple example:



MyCount = xmlNodePart.Cur rent.Select.//MyNode/Record[*]).Count



I saw in some xml specs that instead of[*] it should be [@*], but that does
not work. Why would the @ symbol be needed?



Derek

[Joe Fawcett]

Re: Count Nodes



"Derek Hart" <derekmhart@yah oo.comwrote in message
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I wish to get a count of nodes in an xml file in vb.net, so I am using the
following, as a simple example:
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MyCount = xmlNodePart.Cur rent.Select.//MyNode/Record[*]).Count
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I saw in some xml specs that instead of[*] it should be [@*], but that
does not work. Why would the @ symbol be needed?
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Derek
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* represents a wildcard for current node type, normally this means all
elements, @ is a shortcut for attributes so @* is all attributes.
If you want all nodes in a file you do //node() or count(//node())
The expression you gave, if it were legal, tries to do something different
altogether. It is fetching the count of those Record elements that have a
parent of MyNode and that have child elements.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

http://joe.fawcett.name