Descendants gets zero elements in Word doc

Question

I am having trouble updating a Hyperlink in a Word doc (Q How to update the body and a hyperlink in a Word doc ) and am zooming in on the Descendants() cal

Answer 1

If you are sure there are elements in your file that you are searching with linq, and nothing is returning or you are getting exceptions, that typically points to a namespace problem.

If you post your entire file, I can better help you, but check to see if you can alias your namespace like so:

using W = DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing;

and then in your Descendants call you do something like this:

var hLinks = mainPart.Document.Body.Descendants();

This answer demonstrates another namespace trick to try also.