How do I check if XML element value starts with CONF?

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I need help to check xml element for several conditions in VB.NET code.
1. If the SecurityGroup element doesn’t exist: set to IsConfidential to ‘false’
2. If the SecurityGroup element exists: set to IsConfidential to ‘true’ when @Word starts with CONF
3. Otherwise, set IsConfidential to ‘false’

How do I do this?

I am having trouble with if statements. I am able to check if the element SecurityGroup does not exist and sets the IsConfidential to False.
I am not able to do numbers 2 and 3

Here is XML Element

XML

<SecurityGroup Word="CONFGUA">Conf-Guardianship</SecurityGroup>

What I have tried:

VB

Dim objInsertUpdateCase As MMGService.InsertUpdateCase = New MMGService.InsertUpdateCase

If aobjXmlInputDoc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("Case/SecurityGroup") Is Nothing Then
   objInsertUpdateCase.IsConfidential = False
ElseIf Not aobjXmlInputDoc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("Case/SecurityGroup/@Word").InnerText.StartsWith("CONF") Then 'CONF' Is Nothing Then
    objInsertUpdateCase.IsConfidential = True
Else
   objInsertUpdateCase.IsConfidential = False
End If

Posted 22-Jul-19 6:58am

Member 11403304

Updated 22-Jul-19 8:45am

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-22T08:45:00

Solution 1

You can do it with a single XPath query:

VB.NET

objInsertUpdateCase.IsConfidential = aobjXmlInputDoc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("Case/SecurityGroup[starts-with(@Word, 'CONF')]") IsNot Nothing

Posted 22-Jul-19 8:45am

Richard Deeming

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Member 11403304 22-Jul-19 15:22pm

So I can use your code in an if statement and then say else objInsertUpdateCase.IConfonfidentail = False

Richard Deeming 22-Jul-19 15:24pm

You don't need to - it does it all in one line.

* If the SecurityGroup element doesn't exist, it sets IsConfidential to False;
* If the Word attribute doesn't exist, it sets IsConfidential to False;
* If the Word attribute doesn't start with "CONF", it sets IsConfidential to False;
* Otherwise, it sets IsConfidential to True;