thnx,
the links are indeed helpful...
do u have any info about manipulation of the retrieved nodes and
writing these back to the XML ?

thnx,
Shawn

PS:- please reply to this group henceforth.

Prakash Sachania wrote:
> 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
> > 
> >