How to get xpath from an XmlNode instance

Question

Could someone supply some code that would get the xpath of a System.Xml.XmlNode instance?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I had to do this recently. Only elements needed to be considered. This is what I came up with:

    private string GetPath(XmlElement el)
    {
        List pathList = new List();
        XmlNode node = el;
        while (node is XmlElement)
        {
            pathList.Add(node.Name);
            node = node.ParentNode;
        }
        pathList.Reverse();
        string[] nodeNames = pathList.ToArray();
        return String.Join("/", nodeNames);
    }