XPathResultType.Boolean
Imports System Imports System.Xml Imports System.Xml.XPath Public Class MainClass Public Shared Sub Main() Dim document As XPathDocument = New XPathDocument("contosoBooks.xml") Dim navigator As XPathNavigator = document.CreateNavigator() Dim expression1 As XPathExpression = XPathExpression.Compile(".//bk:price/text()*10") ' Returns a number. Dim expression2 As XPathExpression = XPathExpression.Compile("bk:bookstore/bk:book/bk:price") ' Returns a nodeset. Dim manager As XmlNamespaceManager = New XmlNamespaceManager(navigator.NameTable) manager.AddNamespace("bk", "http://www.yourname.com/books") expression1.SetContext(manager) expression2.SetContext(manager) Evaluate(expression1, navigator) Evaluate(expression2, navigator) End Sub Public Shared Sub Evaluate(ByVal expression As XPathExpression, ByVal navigator As XPathNavigator) Select Case expression.ReturnType Case XPathResultType.Boolean If CType(navigator.Evaluate(expression), Boolean) Then Console.WriteLine("True!") End If End Select End Sub End Class '<bookstore xmlns="http://www.yourname.com/books"> ' <book genre="autobiography" publicationdate="1999-12-12" ISBN="1-111111-11-1"> ' <title>A</title> ' <author> ' <first-name>X</first-name> ' <last-name>Y</last-name> ' </author> ' <price>8.99</price> ' </book> ' <book genre="novel" publicationdate="2000-01-01" ISBN="0-201-63361-2"> ' <title>Java</title> ' <author> ' <first-name>Q</first-name> ' <last-name>Q</last-name> ' </author> ' <price>11.99</price> ' </book> ' <book genre="philosophy" publicationdate="1991-02-15" ISBN="1-861001-57-6"> ' <title>C#</title> ' <author> ' <name>Author</name> ' </author> ' <price>9.99</price> ' </book> '</bookstore>