Hi Shawn,

Welcome to XML programming. It is fun.

Yes you can do that. Using XPATH you can query the XML document. Once you 
get list of nodes that match your criteria of selection (age less than ...), 
you can pretty much find out the where-abouts of the selected node. You can 
get its parent, its siblings etc.

XPATH and DOM would be sufficient for you to get started.

XPATH Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/6da1b6e3-256e-4919-8848-53b425f72ed1.asp

DOM reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/d051f7c5-e882-42e8-a5b6-d1ce67af275c.asp

Prakash

"shawn" wrote:

> Hi,
> I am storing a simple student database in XML format.
> it looks something like
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <student>
> 	<name></name>
> 	<age></age>
> 	<grade></grade>
> 	<marks></marks>
> </student>
> 
> I want to write a program in MS VC++ to query the XML for all such
> students with age less than some integer. After retrieving such nodes,
> can i use the result to fetch other elements of the node such as <name>
> ??
> Also what all tools do i need to learn (XPath, XQuery) to be able to do
> similar stuff on my own ??
> Thanks in advance,
> Cheers,
> 
> Shawn
> 
>