XPATH - local-name question

[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

 

[JontyMC]

You don't need to use local-name(). Try:

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

Also, its better to specify the path directly where possible. // is very inefficient.

 

[beefeater267]

i do need to use local-path b/c i have multiple namespaces.... but anyways, how can i contrain the result while using local path?

 

[JontyMC]

OK, fair enough:

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