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From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dimitren@---.---.-->
To: NULL
Date: 9/28/2007 9:43:00 PM



"TarTar" <spam.spam@l...> wrote in message 
news:u302wEeAIHA.4592@T......
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to use the position() function in the XPath query issued by 
> the Select method of XPathNavigator?
>
> I have the code:
> XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument("data.xml");
> XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavigator();
> XPathNodeIterator nodes = nav.Select("//name[positon() > 10]");
>
> I would like to obtain all names which positions are greater than 10. 
> Currently this piece of code generates the error:
> "Namespace Manager or XsltContext needed. This query has a prefix, 
> variable, or user-defined function."
>
> How to solve this problem?

I think there are at least two problems:

1.  There is no positon() function in XPath. Probably you meant position()

2.  Most probably the node-set selected by:

    //name[position() > 10]

is not what you want. Try the following XPath expression:

    (//name)[position() > 10]


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

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