Filtering nodes w/ local-name()... please help

[beefeater267]

Hi,

have the following statement:
xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//*[local-name() = 'item']");

Now, that selects a single node 'item'.... however, there are multiple items with attributes. How can i constrain it? I would like to select item whos name="a"

Example:
<item name="a">xxx</item>
<item name="b">yyy/item>

I couldn't figure out how to do this . Thanks

 

[simonchristieis]

haven't you posted this before ?

try this:

xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//*[local-name() = 'item'][@name='a']");

but this is better:

xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//item[@name='a']");