use C# handle xml with namespace

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/585812/using-xpath-with-default-namespace-in-c



Question
:

I've got an XML document with a default namespace. I'm using a XPathNavigator to select a set of nodes using Xpath as follows:

XmlElement
 myXML 
=
 
...;
  


XPathNavigator
 navigator 
=
 myXML
.
CreateNavigator
();



XPathNodeIterator
 result 
=
 navigator
.
Select
(
"/outerelement/innerelement"
);

I am not getting any results back: I'm assuming this is because I am not specifying the namespace. How can I include the namespace in my select?

Solution
:

2 down vote

In case the namespaces differ for outerelement and innerelemen

XmlNamespaceManager
 manager 
=
 
new
 
XmlNamespaceManager
(
myXmlDocument
.
NameTable
);


                            manager

.
AddNamespace
(
"o"
,
 
"namespaceforOuterElement"
);


                            manager
.
AddNamespace
(
"i"
,
 
"namespaceforInnerElement"
);




string
 xpath 
=
 
@
"/o:outerelement/i:innerelement"




// For single node value selection



XPathExpression
 xPathExpression 
=
 navigator
.
Compile
(
xpath 
);



string
 reportID 
=
 myXmlDocument
.
SelectSingleNode
(
xPathExpression
.
Expression
,
 manager
).
InnerText
;





// For multiple node selection



XmlNodeList
 myNodeList
=
 myXmlDocument
.
SelectNodes
(
xpath
,
 manager
);










Microsoft sample:






Dim
 reader As
 New
 XmlTextReader("myfile.xml"
)

Dim
 nsmanager As
 New
 XmlNamespaceManager(reader.NameTable)

nsmanager.AddNamespace("msbooks"
, "www.microsoft.com/books"
)

nsmanager.PushScope()

nsmanager.AddNamespace("msstore"
, "www.microsoft.com/store"
)

While
 reader.Read()

    Console.WriteLine("Reader Prefix:{0}"
, reader.Prefix)

    Console.WriteLine("XmlNamespaceManager Prefix:{0}"
,

     nsmanager.LookupPrefix(nsmanager.NameTable.Get
(reader.NamespaceURI)))

End
 While