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How to Select XML Nodes by Attribute Value using XPath expression in C#?

How to Select XML Nodes by Attribute Value using XPath expression in C#?
 
This example shows how to select nodes from XML document by attribute value. Use method XmlNode.SelectNodes to get list of nodes selected by the XPath expression. Suppose we have this XML file.
 
<Names>
    <Name type="M">John</Name>
    <Name type="F">Susan</Name>
    <Name type="M">David</Name>
</Names>
 
To get all name nodes use XPath expression /Names/Name. To get only male names (to select all nodes with specific XML attribute) use XPath expression /Names/Name[@type='M'].
 
XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.LoadXml(myXMLDocPath);  //Path of XML file
XmlNodeList xnList = xml.SelectNodes("/Names/Name[@type='M']");

foreach (XmlNode xn in xnList)
{
  Console.WriteLine(xn.InnerText);
}

 
The output is:
John
David

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