AlBruAn wrote:
> Using code similar to the snippet I'm pasting below, I need to be able to 
> loop through the XML and retrieve specific pieces of information such as the 
> average counter_cpu_idle, the average counter_cpu_idle_states, etc.  The file 
> includes multiple entries along the line of <data 
> xsi:type="ns2:perf_dataType">.  
> 
> Other information I needed from a different XML file was easy to navigate to 
> with simple XPath statements, but this looked like it requires XSLT...and I'm 
> not sure where to start.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Well XSLT helps if you want to transform your XML to another XML format 
or to HTML or to plain text and it uses XPath anyway to select and match 
nodes so I am not sure why you don't know where to start if you could 
deal with XPath for other documents.
Which XPath API or XSLT processor (e.g. MSXML or .NET) do you want to use?
XPaths are as simple as

/packet/ns1:data/perf_mon/data[@xsi:type = 'ns2:perf_dataType']

then relative to that

ns2:class[ns2:name = 
'counters_vz_cpu']/ns2:instance/ns2:counter[ns2:name = 
'counter_cpu_idle']/ns2:value/ns2:avg


where you simply need to bind the prefixes used in the XML to the 
namespace URIs used in the XML. How you do that depends on the API you 
use/want to use so we need to establish that first before showing code 
how to do that.

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