Quick Tip: Using XPath to find nodes by attribute value

posted by  techgeek (12)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

There are some things that I can just remember: phone numbers, locker combinations, and the like.  There are others that I have to lookup again and again and again.  XPath query syntax is one of the latter items.  Today, I'd like to talk a little about XPath queries.The following XML contains a collection of "Friend" nodes.  Each node has attributes for name and birth date.  To keep this post to a reasonable length, I am going to limit the XML to 5 nodes.<MyFriends>  <Friend name="Sam" birthMonth="July" birthDay="16" birt