Controlling the order of XML namepaces

Question

I\'m having a problem getting the \"xmlns\" to appear first in the root attribute list.

Im getting this:

Answer 1

I have a customer with this very problem. This was a real pain in the s, so I wrote a workaround to solve this.

Please note this is not a beautiful solution, and this should be not encouraged, but works.

public static class MyKludgeXmlClass
{
    public static XmlDocument CreateXmlDocumentWithOrderedNamespaces()
    {
        var xml = "";
        System.Xml.XmlDocument doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
        doc.LoadXml(xml);

        return doc;
    }
}

With XmlDocument you can retrieve the root:

var xmlDoc = MyKludgeXmlClass.CreateXmlDocumentWithOrderedNamespaces();
XmlElement root = xmlDoc.DocumentElement;

And append children nodes using your favorite method.