Clicking on checkbox based on tables column value - IE Webdriver Selenium - selenium

Question

Clicking on checkbox based on tables column value using Xpath. Below is the html
<table id="tblHotels">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TH align="left">
<INPUT checkbox="" id="chkNSelectAll name=chkNSelectAll type="/>
</TH>
<TH align="left" title="Hotel">Hotel</TH>
<TH title=" align=left">
<SPAN id="spnExpandBtn">
<IMG/>
</SPAN>
</TH>
<TH align="left" title="Hotel">Hotel</TH>
<TH align="left" title="Reg Date">Reg Date</TH>
<TH align="left" title="Room Type">Room Type</TH>
<TH align="left" title="Location">Location</TH>
<TH align="left" title="Room Number">Room Number</TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colSpan="11">
<IMG src=" ../NoExpiry/images/uaimBSpacer.gif"/>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
<INPUT id="chkNSelect" name="chkNSelect" type="checkbox" value="on"/>
</TD>
<TD customHiddenText="">MATHEW Joe</TD>
<TD/>
<TD customHiddenText="">
<SPAN>Affray (
<STRONG/>Kim Lee)
</SPAN>
</TD>
<TD class="regDate customHiddenText=">10/01/2014</TD>
<TD customHiddenText="">1HE</TD>
<TD customHiddenText="">South West </TD>
<TD id="tdChildroom name=" tdChildroom=""/>
<INPUT id="hidYID" name="hidYID" type="hidden" value="409">
<INPUT id="hidYD" name="hidYD" type="hidden">
<INPUT id="hidYDID" name="hidYDID" type="hidden" value="1015389"/>
</INPUT>
</INPUT>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
<INPUT id="chkNSelect" name="chkNSelect" type="checkbox" value="on"/>
</TD>
<TD customHiddenText="">MATHEW Penny</TD>
<TD/>
<TD customHiddenText="">
<SPAN>Affray (
<STRONG/>Jim Lee)
</SPAN>
</TD>
<TD class="regDate customHiddenText=">10/01/2014</TD>
<TD customHiddenText="">1HE</TD>
<TD customHiddenText="">South West </TD>
<TD id="tdChildroom name=" tdChildroom=""/>
<INPUT id="hidYID" name="hidYID" type="hidden" value="409">
<INPUT id="hidYD" name="hidYD" type="hidden">
<INPUT id="hidYDID" name="hidYDID" type="hidden" value="1015389"/>
</INPUT>
</INPUT>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</table>
here is what i am trying and this always clicks the first checkbox??
Driver.FindElementByXPath("//td[contains(text(),'MATHEW Penny')]/preceding::td/input[#name='chkNSelect']").Click()
If i try to just find the column with the text it can find it not why it cannot find the preceding check box and jumps to first rows check box??
Driver.FindElementByXPath("//td[contains(text(),'MATHEW Penny')]
my requirement is to select the first checkbox (do something eg:add it to another table) uncheck it then check the 2nd checkbox (do something eg:add it to another table).

Answer 1

Use for MATHEW Penny:
//td[contains(text(),'Penny')]/preceding-sibling::td/input[#name='chkNSelect']
Use for MATHEW Joe:
//td[contains(text(),'Joe')]/preceding-sibling::td/input[#name='chkNSelect']

Answer 2

Its selecting all input elements with name as chkNSelect which comes before td with text as MATHEW Penny.
Use
//td[contains(text(),'MATHEW Penny')]/preceding::td/input[last()][#name='chkNSelect']
to select only first such input

Answer 3

You could try:
first targeting the tr
containing the td with the text node you want (using a predicate)
and then going to an input within a td in that table row
So that translates to:
Driver.FindElementByXPath("//tr[td[contains(text(),'MATHEW Penny')]]/td/input[#name='chkNSelect']")
Breakdown:
//tr[
td[
contains(text(),'MATHEW Penny')
]
]
/td/input[#name='chkNSelect']