Document.SelectSingleNode Method

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Word Developer Reference

Returns an XMLNode object that represents the first node that matches the XPath parameter in the specified document.

Syntax

expression.SelectSingleNode(XPath, PrefixMapping, FastSearchSkippingTextNodes)

expression   Required. A variable that represents a Document object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
XPath Required String A valid XPath string. For more information on XPath, see the XPath reference documentation on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site.
PrefixMapping Optional Variant 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 Optional Boolean True skips all text nodes while searching for the specified node. False includes text nodes in the search. Default value is True.

Return Value
XMLNode

Remarks

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

Example

The following example returns the first title element found in the active document that is a child element of the book element.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Dim objElement As XMLNode
Dim strElement As String
Dim strPrefix As String

strElement = "/x:catalog/x:book/x:title"
strPrefix = "xmlns:x=""" & ActiveDocument _
.XMLSchemaReferences(1).NamespaceURI & """"


Set objElement = ActiveDocument _
.SelectSingleNode(strElement, strPrefix)

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