C# How to extract complete xml node set

Question

Answer 1

Let's say this XML is stored in an XmlDocument called doc.

XmlElement docRoot = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNode cookingNode = docRoot.SelectSingleNode("./book[@category='COOKING']");

I tested this and added this line to verify:

Console.WriteLine(cookingNode.OuterXml);

Here was the output:

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