XmlNodeList.Item(Int32) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml

Assembly:

System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll

Source:

XmlNodeList.cs

Retrieves a node at the given index.

public:
 abstract System::Xml::XmlNode ^ Item(int index);

public abstract System.Xml.XmlNode? Item (int index);

abstract member Item : int -> System.Xml.XmlNode

Public MustOverride Function Item (index As Integer) As XmlNode

Parameters

index

Int32

The zero-based index into the list of nodes.

Returns

XmlNode

The XmlNode with the specified index in the collection. If index is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in the list, this returns null.

Examples

The following example gets and displays the second node in the XmlNodeList.

#using <System.Xml.dll>

using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Xml;
int main()
{
   XmlDocument^ doc = gcnew XmlDocument;
   doc->LoadXml( "<items>"
   "  <item>First item</item>"
   "  <item>Second item</item>"
   "</items>" );
   
   //Get and display the last item node.
   XmlElement^ root = doc->DocumentElement;
   XmlNodeList^ nodeList = root->GetElementsByTagName( "item" );
   Console::WriteLine( nodeList->Item( 1 )->InnerXml );
}

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;

public class Sample {

  public static void Main() {

     XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
     doc.LoadXml("<items>" +
                 "  <item>First item</item>" +
                 "  <item>Second item</item>" +
                 "</items>");

     //Get and display the last item node.
     XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
     XmlNodeList nodeList = root.GetElementsByTagName("item");
     Console.WriteLine(nodeList.Item(1).InnerXml);
  }
}

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml

public class Sample

  public shared sub Main()

    Dim doc as XmlDocument = new XmlDocument()
    doc.LoadXml("<items>" & _
                "  <item>First item</item>" & _
                "  <item>Second item</item>" & _
                "</items>")
                         
     'Get and display the last item node.
     Dim root as XmlElement = doc.DocumentElement
     Dim nodeList as XmlNodeList = root.GetElementsByTagName("item")
     Console.WriteLine(nodeList.Item(1).InnerXml)
    
  end sub
end class