how to use XPath with XDocument?

Question

There is a similar question, but it seems that the solution didn\'t work out in my case: Weirdness with XDocument, XPath and namespaces

Here is the XML I am working

Answer 1

XPath 1.0, which is what MS implements, does not have the idea of a default namespace. So try this:

XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(@"C:\SampleXML.xml");
XmlNamespaceManager xnm = new XmlNamespaceManager(new NameTable()); 
xnm.AddNamespace("x", "http://demo.com/2011/demo-schema");
Console.WriteLine(xdoc.XPathSelectElement("/x:Report/x:ReportInfo/x:Name", xnm) == null);

Answer 2

you can use the example from Microsoft - for you without namespace:

using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.XPath;
var e = xdoc.XPathSelectElement("./Report/ReportInfo/Name");     

should do it

Answer 3

If you have XDocument it is easier to use LINQ-to-XML:

var document = XDocument.Load(fileName);
var name = document.Descendants(XName.Get("Name", @"http://demo.com/2011/demo-schema")).First().Value;

If you are sure that XPath is the only solution you need:

using System.Xml.XPath;

var document = XDocument.Load(fileName);
var namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(new NameTable());
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("empty", "http://demo.com/2011/demo-schema");
var name = document.XPathSelectElement("/empty:Report/empty:ReportInfo/empty:Name", namespaceManager).Value;