using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.XPath;

public class XmlReaderSample

{

public static void Main()

{

XmlTextReader myxtreader = new XmlTextReader("booksort.xml");

XmlReader myxreader = myxtreader;

XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument(myxreader);

XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavigator();

XPathExpression expr;

expr = nav.Compile("descendant::book[author/last-name='Austen']");

//expr.AddSort("title", XmlSortOrder.Ascending, XmlCaseOrder.None, "", XmlDataType.Text);

XPathNodeIterator iterator = nav.Select(expr);

while (iterator.MoveNext())

{

XPathNavigator nav2 = iterator.Current;

nav2.MoveToFirstChild();

Console.WriteLine("Book title: {0}", nav2.Value);

}

}

}

运行这个程序，结果为：

Book title: Pride And Prejudice

Book title: Emma

Book title: Sense and Sensibility

可以看到查找正确。

利用XPATH中的一些功能，也可以实现简单的排序和简单运算。如在数据库中经常要对数据进行汇总，就可用XPATH实现。