Rather than wasting time designing an XPath to handle all corner cases
in such a poorly designed XML, I would spend time finding out who
created such an XML and then firing or atleast censuring him/her.

On Nov 9, 2:18 pm, Faraz Azhar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > sum(/Database/it...@code='4000']/Item)
>
> Hmm.. this works on above XML file. But if I specify the Code as 4001
> (Code=4001) , then it returns zero. I guess I can make a work-around
> for that.
> But this is my real XML file.. it has nested nodes in it. Have a 
> look:http://dotnetdevelopment.pastebin.com/m4aee52fb
>
> I write the XPath query as follows: "sum(/Accounts/accou...@code=4003]/
> Account)"   .. It doesnt work.
> I want to have a query in which if I specify the Code=4003, it should
> give me sum of 4003.1, 4003.2, 4003.3  which would be 11100.
> And if I specify Code=4000, it should sum all the child nodes; which
> are 4001,4002,4003,4003.1,4003.2,4003.3  and should return 50760 value.

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