Using XPathNavigator to retrieve a node by name, using wildcards!

Apologies! It does work - perfectly!!

I'd missed out the single quotes around the name! Ooops!

Many thanks for your help.

Hello again,

I tried this but unfortunately it seems to be ignoring the node name criteria and just selecting all nodes under settings (i.e. the same as "settings/*")

Any other ideas?

Thanks again!

Hi Alan,

Thank you so much for your reply - this looks exactly what I wanted!
I will give it a try!

Think I need to improve my XPath skills - it's something I've never got to grips with!!

Thanks again,

Nathan.

Try this:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("stoolz.xml");  // or whatever
XmlNodeList nodeList = doc.SelectNodes("//settings/*[starts-with(name(),'name')]");
       
foreach (XmlNode node in nodeList)
{
      string text = node.InnerText;
       Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}",node.Name);
       Console.WriteLine("Contents: {0}",node.InnerText);
       Console.WriteLine();
}