Trouble traversing xml tree with xpath -

i have legacy xml used create navigation area of website:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu>     <menuitem>         <name>about</name>         <id>1</id>         <link>/about/index.html</link>         <menuitem>             <name>vision</name>             <id>1.1</id>             <link>/about/vision.html</link>         </menuitem>         <menuitem>         <name>history</name>             <id>1.2</id>             <link>/about/history.html</link>             <menuitem>                 <name>relocation</name>                 <id>1.2.1</id>                 <link>/about/relocation.html</link>             </menuitem>         </menuitem>     </menuitem> </menu> 

the website built in classic asp have tried use xpath render out navigation:

dim objxml, strleftnav set objxml = server.createobject("msxml2.domdocument.4.0") objxml.async=false objxml.load("nav.xml") if objxml.parseerror.errorcode = 0     dim xmlnode     each xmlnode in objxml.selectnodes("*/menuitem/*")         set xmlnamenode = xmlnode.selectsinglenode("//menu/menuitem/name")         strleftnav = strleftnav & "<li>" & xmlnamenode.nodetypedvalue & "</li>"     next     set xmlnamenode = nothing end if set objxml = nothing response.write("<ul>" & strleftnav & "</ul>") 

this leaves me number of li showing first name node 'about' trying pull out name node each menuitem node list, can advise me correct xpath syntax?

the xpath expression //menu/menuitem/name absolute selection starting root of tree. want select relative current position, might name. haven't made clear how want handle recursive structure of input xml, it's not clear output want.