I'm using the XPath API along with XPathNodeIterators.  What you wrote was a 
tremendous help.  Thanks!

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"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> 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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> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
>