Sep 13

Written by: Steve Gray
9/13/2010 12:39 PM 

Task:

Given this XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
  <currentProfile>default</currentProfile>
  <profiles>
    <profile name="default">
      <scriptFolder>C:\myScripts</scriptFolder>
    </profile>
    <profile name="special">
      <scriptFolder>C:\specialScripts</scriptFolder>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</root>

 

We need to get the value of the ‘scriptFolder’ node for the ‘default’ profile.

Here’s the code:

Imports System.Xml

Dim xmldoc As New XmlDocument
xmldoc.Load(Application.StartupPath & "\Profiles.xml")

Dim strQuery As String
strQuery = "root/profiles/profile[@name='default']/scriptFolder"

Dim xnScriptFolder As XmlNode = xmldoc.SelectSingleNode(strQuery)