I'm working on a page wherein I'm using a nested repeater and therefore am using the tree.SelectNodes method in a fashion similar to that referenced by the developer's chm file nested repeater sample.

The problem I've run into, is that I'd like to filter the "master" table by one of the colums so naturally i assumed that I could use the "where" parameter of the SelectNodes() method however I'm unable to do so. It appears that the methods wants to apply the "where" clause to both tables that I'm returning into my data set, which obviously causes an error (the filter is invalid on the "child" table).

I've worked-around the problem by getting the full set and then creating a DataView that is "filtered" and then utilize that as the data source for my "parent" repeater.

My question is, is this simply how the where parameter of SelectNodes works? or is there some syntax I can use to simplify the process?