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1. C# / CSharp Tutorial
2. XML
3. XPath

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Xml;

public class MainClass
{

    public static void Main()
    {
        XmlDocument mDocument = new XmlDocument();
        XmlNode mCurrentNode;

        mDocument.Load("XPathQuery.xml");
        mCurrentNode = mDocument.DocumentElement;
        XmlNodeList nodeList = mCurrentNode.SelectNodes("//book");

        DisplayList(nodeList);
    }

    static void DisplayList(XmlNodeList nodeList)
    {
        foreach (XmlNode node in nodeList)
        {
            RecurseXmlDocumentNoSiblings(node);
        }
    }

    static void RecurseXmlDocumentNoSiblings(XmlNode root)
    {
        if (root is XmlElement)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(root.Name);
            if (root.HasChildNodes)
                RecurseXmlDocument(root.FirstChild);
        }
        else if (root is XmlText)
        {
            string text = ((XmlText)root).Value;
            Console.WriteLine(text);
        }
        else if (root is XmlComment)
        {
            string text = root.Value;
            Console.WriteLine(text);
            if (root.HasChildNodes)
                RecurseXmlDocument(root.FirstChild);
        }
    }
    static void RecurseXmlDocument(XmlNode root)
    {
        if (root is XmlElement)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(root.Name);
            if (root.HasChildNodes)
                RecurseXmlDocument(root.FirstChild);
            if (root.NextSibling != null)
                RecurseXmlDocument(root.NextSibling);
        }
        else if (root is XmlText)
        {
            string text = ((XmlText)root).Value;
            Console.WriteLine(text);
        }
        else if (root is XmlComment)
        {
            string text = root.Value;
            Console.WriteLine(text);
            if (root.HasChildNodes)
                RecurseXmlDocument(root.FirstChild);
            if (root.NextSibling != null)
                RecurseXmlDocument(root.NextSibling);
        }
    }
}