<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
File: Default.aspx.vb
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.XPath
Partial Class _Default
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles Me.Load
Dim booksFile As String = Path.Combine(Request.PhysicalApplicationPath, _
"Data.xml")
Dim document As New XPathDocument(booksFile)
Dim nav As XPathNavigator = document.CreateNavigator()
Dim namespaceMgr As New XmlNamespaceManager(nav.NameTable)
namespaceMgr.AddNamespace("b", "http://example.books.com")
For Each node As XPathNavigator In nav.Select( _
"//b:book[not(b:price[. > 10.00])]/b:price", namespaceMgr)
Dim price As Decimal = _
CType(node.ValueAs(GetType(Decimal)), Decimal)
Response.Write(String.Format("Price is {0}<BR/>", _
price))
Next
End Sub
End Class
File: Data.xml
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<bookstore xmlns="http://example.books.com"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<book genre="A"
publicationdate="1981"
ISBN="1-11111-11-0">
<title>title 1</title>
<author>
<first-name>A</first-name>
<last-name>B</last-name>
</author>
<price>8</price>
</book>
<book genre="B"
publicationdate="1999"
ISBN="0-222-22222-2">
<title>title 2</title>
<author>
<first-name>C</first-name>
<last-name>D</last-name>
</author>
<price>11.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>