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 I have a problem in accessing a specific tag without considering the same tag inside child nodes.

The problem is:
<bib>
<au>
<fnm> Jelfy</fnm>
<snm>Mary</snm>
</au>
<au>
<fnm> Sumitha</fnm>
<snm>Susan</snm>
</au>
<eds>
<au>
<fnm> Joy</fnm>
<snm>Peter</snm>
</au>
<au>
<fnm> Flora</fnm>
<snm>Sania</snm>
</au>

</eds>
</bib>
Here I want only Jelfy Mary and Sumitha Susan,the <au> inside <eds>
I dont want to extract.I used getelementbytagname,select singlenodes etc but it is fetching all the 4 au tags.
I want only the first 2.Can u help me? :(

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Thanks
Jelfy

You could use XPath...



dom.selectNodes("bib/au")



HTH,

Chris

 Without using xpath also that selectnodes works but
the exact problem is:
<bibl>
<bib id="1">
<bookref>
<old>
<au>
<fnm> Jelfy</fnm>
<snm>Mary</snm>
</au>
<au>
<fnm> Sumitha</fnm>
<snm>Susan</snm>
</au>
<eds>
<au>
<fnm> Joy</fnm>
<snm>Peter</snm>
</au>
<au>
<fnm> Flora</fnm>
<snm>Sania</snm>
</au>

</eds>
</old>
</bookref>
</bib>
<bib id="2">
<jnlref>
<present>
<au>
<fnm> Joseph</fnm>
<snm>M</snm>
</au>
<au>
<fnm> Chris</fnm>
<snm>N</snm>
</au>
<eds>
<au>
<fnm> Joy</fnm>
<snm>Peter</snm>
</au>
<au>
<fnm> Flora</fnm>
<snm>Sania</snm>
</au>

</eds>
</present>
</jnlref>
</bib>
</bibl>
Here I want to extract only all <au> tags outside <eds></eds>.
I tried xmlDoc.selectNodes("bibl//bib//au")with xpath but its extracting all the au tags.
Can u pls help me with code?

How about xmlDoc.selectNodes("bibl/bib/*/*/au")

Thank You Very Much.....
The * concept usage is extremely helpful to me in solving some of my major project issues.Thanxxxxxxxxxxx.