Tim Mackey's Weblog

For some reason i can't get SelectNodes to work with the IIS 6 MetaBase.xml file.  It just doesn't return any matches.  I think the structure may be non-standard or too complex, or else i'm not using it right.  but in any case, I worked around the problem by opening the file with File.OpenText and using Regex to parse out the nodes i'm interested in, namely the IISWebServer nodes.

string MetaBase = "";
using(StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MetaBasePath"].ToString()))
	MetaBase = sr.ReadToEnd();

foreach(Match m in new Regex(@"(?x:)<IIsWebServer[^>]*>.*?</IIsWebServer>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Matches(MetaBase))
{
	XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
	string IisCode = "", ServerBindings = "", ServerComment = "";
	doc.LoadXml(m.Groups[0].Value);
	XmlElement node = doc.DocumentElement;
	// now you can access the node attributes
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