Document.SelectSingleNode (Word)

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

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

SelectSingleNode (XPath, PrefixMapping, FastSearchSkippingTextNodes)

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)

Arguments

The following argument is required

XPath (String) - A valid XPath string. For more information on XPath, see the XPath reference documentation on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site.

Optional arguments

The following arguments are optional

PrefixMapping (String) - 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 (Boolean) - True skips all text nodes while searching for the specified node. False includes text nodes in the search. Default value is True.