XPath and Selecting a single node

Question

I\'m using XPath in .NET to parse an XML document, along the lines of:

XmlNodeList lotsOStuff = doc.SelectNodes(\"//stuff\         


        

Answer 1

The // you use in front of stuffChild means you're looking for stuffChild elements, starting from the root.

If you want to start from the current node (decendants of the current node), you should use .//, as in:

stuff.SelectSingleNode(".//stuffChild");