There are a number of ways to read nodes from an Xml file but the one I usually prefer is to load the XmlFile into an XmlDocument object and then use XPath queries to isolate specific nodes.
If you're not familiar with XPath there's a good online tutorial <a target="_new" href="http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/default.asp">here</a>.
For example, the following program gets the value from chapter 2, verse 2:
using System;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.XPath;
class Test
{
static void Main()
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("david2.xml");
XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("//chapter[@value='2']");
node = node.SelectSingleNode("following-sibling::verse[@value='2']");
node = node.NextSibling;
if (node == null) return;
Console.WriteLine(node.InnerText.Trim());
Console.ReadKey();
}
}

Thanks Vulpes! It works!
But now I'm not able to access the last child, and i don't know why!
I have this kind of xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<scripture>
<canon id="OT" value="OT">
<book value="GEN" >
<title >Title</title>
<text>
<p>
</p>
<p>
<div>
<chapter value="1" />
<verse value="1" />text <verseEnd />
<chapterEnd />
</div>
</p>
</text>
</book>
</canon>
</scripture>
I'm not able to access the TEXT value from chapter1, verse1 ?
How can i do that?
Thanks!
David

The code for that will be similar to what we had before except that the value attributes will now be '1' rather than '2':
XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("//chapter[@value='1']");
node = node.SelectSingleNode("following-sibling::verse[@value='1']");
node = node.NextSibling;
if (node == null) return;
Console.WriteLine(node.InnerText.Trim());
In XPath, the "//" looks for whatever follows it, wherever it is in the document.
Just to make sure, I tried the above code on the new file and it worked fine.
Are you sure you've including the call to the NextSibling property? That's needed because 'text' isn't a child of the verse node - it stands on its own.

Ok, so if i want all the verse atributes from chapter 1, it is correct if i do like this:
XmlNodeList capitoleList = doc.SelectNodes("//book[@value='GEN']//chapter[@value='1']");
XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("//book[@value='GEN']");
node = node.SelectSingleNode("following-sibling::chapter[@value='1']");
node = node.NextSibling;
rich_preview.Text += node.InnerText;
david

I'm trying to get all the verse atributes from gen, where chapter is 1, but no success!
What i'm doing wrong ?
XmlNodeList capitoleList = doc.SelectNodes("//book[@value='GEN']//chapter[@value='1']//verse");
MessageBox.Show(capitoleList.Count.ToString());
foreach (XmlNode node in capitoleList)
{

XmlElement capitolElement = (XmlElement)node;
string c = capitolElement.Attributes[0].InnerText.Trim();
rich_preview.Text += c;
}
david

Try it like this:
XmlNode n = doc.SelectSingleNode("//book[@value='GEN']");
n = n.SelectSingleNode("descendant::chapter[@value='1']");
XmlNodeList capitoleList = n.SelectNodes("following-sibling::verse");
MessageBox.Show(capitoleList.Count.ToString());
foreach (XmlNode node in capitoleList)
{
XmlElement capitolElement = (XmlElement)node;
string c = capitolElement.Attributes[0].InnerText.Trim();
rich_preview.Text += c;
}
If you're using your last document, that should just print out '1' to the RTB i.e. the attribute of the only verse node of chapter 1.