I have the following XML File:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<ContactInformation>
<Country Name="Pakistan">
<City Name="Karachi">
<Region Name="North-Region">
<Route Number="1">
<Shop>Azeem Medical Store</Shop>
<Shop>Saeed Whole Sale Store</Shop>
<Shop>Azeem Super Store</Shop>
<Shop>Shahid Medical Store</Shop>
</Route>
<Route Number="2">
<Shop>Saeed Medical Store</Shop>
<Shop>Raheel Whole Sale Store</Shop>
</Route>
</Region>
</City>
</Country>
<Country Name="India">
<City Name="Delhi">
<Region Name="South-Region">
<Route Number="12">
<Shop>M. General Store</Shop>
</Route>
</Region>
</City>
</Country>
</ContactInformation>

What query should i use in xpath to retrieve all the nodes where Country Name='Pakistan'. I dont want to loop through the child nodes just to reach my required nodes by xpath query. Any help would be appreciated..Thanks

A great resource for learning XPath is the W3Schools web site: http://www.w3schools.com/Xpath/

To refer to the Name attribute you use @Name, and to perform a predicate (or filter) you put your criteria in square brackets [x=y], so /ContactInformation/Country[@Name='Pakistan'] would do what you want.

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