Hello. I have recently completed a program that uses a web service to define vocabulary words. Now I'm adding the ability to first check whether each word is spelled correctly before using the web service to define it.

So, I am using the following code to get an XML stream containing spelling suggestions:

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//Use web service to check spelling
                HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://ws.cdyne.com/SpellChecker/check.asmx/CheckTextBody");
                string postsourcedata;
                postsourcedata = "BodyText=" + word + "&LicenseKey=" + licenseKey;
                request.Method = "POST";
                request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
                request.ContentLength = postsourcedata.Length;
                request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)";
                Stream writeStream = request.GetRequestStream();
                UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
                byte[] bytes = encoding.GetBytes(postsourcedata);
                writeStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
                writeStream.Close();
                HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
                Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
                StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.UTF8);
                string page = readStream.ReadToEnd();
                XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
                doc.LoadXml(page);
                XmlNode root = doc.DocumentElement;


                //PROBLEM HERE; HOW TO DISPLAY A SINGLE "SUGGESTIONS" ELEMENT
                MessageBox.Show(root. .ToString());

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You can see a sample of the XML file returned at this address: http://ws.cdyne.com/SpellChecker/che...enseKey=string

For now, I'm just going to show all possible spelling suggestions, if any, in a MessageBox, before I worry about allowing the user to select the one they wish to use. However, as my comments suggest, how can I go about getting the value of a single <Suggestions> element? I know how to get the InnerText of the entire document (root.ParentNode["DocumentSummary"].InnerText.ToString()), but I need to be able to offer each suggestion one at a time! Please and thanks for your help!

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Usually, you would use an XPath query to extract a particular node/attribute value:

node = doc.SelectSingleNode("<xpath query goes here>");
something = node.Value;

-Peter

I've never worked with XPath's before. I looked them up on MSDN but cannot seem to get the hang of them after a lot of experimenting. Could you give me some sample code of how to display each <Suggestions> element in a MessageBox using, say, a foreach loop or something? Thanks.

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Something like this:

lstNodes = doc.SelectNodes("//Suggestions");
foreach(XmlNode objNode in lstNodes){
  MessageBox.Show(objNode.Value);
}

You'll probably need to play with that a bit, but that's the general idea.

-Peter

Thank-you for your help! After looking at your sample code, and re-reading the MSDN documentation, it started to make sense! Turns out I needed to use the correct namespace in the XPath Query. In case you would like to know, here is the final code:

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//Loop through XML file and check if suggestions exist
                XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);
                nsmgr.AddNamespace("sp", "http://ws.cdyne.com/");

                XmlNodeList lstNodes;

                lstNodes = doc.SelectNodes("/sp:DocumentSummary/sp:MisspelledWord/sp:Suggestions", nsmgr);
                foreach (XmlNode objNode in lstNodes)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(objNode.InnerText.ToString());
                }

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Once again thank-you for your help!

Computers will never surpass the human brain; no computer will ever be able to replicate human stupidity.

Namespaces can be tricky, or perhaps it's just that I haven't worked with XML docs the contain namespaces very much.

Glad you got it sorted out.

-Peter