Is it possible to ignore case using xpath and c#?

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Just wondered if its possible to ignore case with c# and xpath when searching an xml document?

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/587864 – Dog Ears Nov 30 '10 at 17:44 — Dog Ears, Nov 30 '10 at 17:44

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 30 '10 at 12:39

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The bad news is that Xpath is case sensitive, however there are ways to get around this. Have a look at the following MSDN blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shjin/archive/2005/07/22/442025.aspx

answered Nov 30 '10 at 12:39

MrEyes

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No. XML Names are case sensitive. And, why quoting M$ documentation? Why not the XML specs? – Nov 30 '10 at 13:04
@Dog Ears: Oh! I didn't see the `show-me-some-ms-documentation` tag... **;)** – Nov 30 '10 at 13:23
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He correctly states that XPath itself is case-sensitive, and then gives an MS specific solution that is perfectly applicable to the combination "C# and xpath" in the question. +1 for a good answer, what's @Alejando's objection? – Jon Hanna Nov 30 '10 at 14:12

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 30 '10 at 14:48

XPath is case sensitive.

If you would allow any case combination of characters in a name (bad decision!), an XPath expression successfully dealing with this might look like:

/a/b/*['anycasename' 
      = translate(name(), 
                 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',
                 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
                 )
      ]

Is it possible to ignore case using xpath and c#?

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