Document.SelectNodes Method

Gets a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.XMLNodes collection that represents all the nodes that match the XPath parameter in the order in which they appear in the document.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word
Assemblies:   Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v4.0.Utilities (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v4.0.Utilities.dll)
  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function SelectNodes ( _
    XPath As String, _
    PrefixMapping As String, _
    FastSearchSkippingTextNodes As Boolean _
) As XMLNodes
XMLNodes SelectNodes(
    string XPath,
    string PrefixMapping,
    bool FastSearchSkippingTextNodes
)

Parameters

  • XPath
    Type: System.String

    A valid XPath string. For more information on XPath, see XPath Reference.

  • PrefixMapping
    Type: System.String

    Provides the prefix in the schema against which to perform the search. Use the PrefixMapping parameter if your XPath parameter uses names to search for elements.

  • FastSearchSkippingTextNodes
    Type: System.Boolean

    true skips all text nodes while searching for the specified node. false includes text nodes in the search. Default value is false.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.XMLNodes
A Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.XMLNodes collection that represents all the nodes that match the XPath parameter in the order in which they appear in the document; nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) if no nodes matching the XPath parameter are found.

Remarks

Setting the FastSearchSkippingTextNodes parameter to true diminishes performance, because Microsoft Office Word searches all nodes in a document against the text contained in the node.

Optional Parameters

For information on optional parameters, see Optional Parameters in Office Solutions.

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

Document Interface

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word Namespace