Hi Dimitre,

Thanks a lot! Now the code works like a charm.

BTW
Could you explain (or point to a resource) what's the differenece between 
//name[position() > 10] and (//name)[position() > 10] ? The former one (with 
brackets) works perfectly - but why?

Leszek

"Dimitre Novatchev" <dimitren@t...> wrote in message 
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> "TarTar" <spam.spam@l...> wrote in message 
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>> 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]");
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>> 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?
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> I think there are at least two problems:
>
> 1.  There is no positon() function in XPath. Probably you meant position()
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> 2.  Most probably the node-set selected by:
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>    //name[position() > 10]
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> is not what you want. Try the following XPath expression:
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>    (//name)[position() > 10]
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>
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev
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