Get namespace from xml file C#

Question

I\'ve browsed the questions with similar titles but cannot seem to find exactly what I\'m looking for,if anyone spotted a similar question kindly point me to the thread.Here is

Answer 1

Here's what I ended up using from the Scott Hanselman article

public static IDictionary<string, string> GetXmlNamespaces(string sourcePath)
{
    XDocument y = XDocument.Load(sourcePath);
    XPathNavigator foo = y.CreateNavigator();
    foo.MoveToFollowing(XPathNodeType.Element);
    return foo.GetNamespacesInScope(XmlNamespaceScope.All);
}

Usually the namespace I want is in the value of the 2nd element of the dictionary which I access like so:

var namespace = GetXmlNamespaces("myfile.xml").ElementAt(1).Value;

Answer 2

Thats because the default namespace is blank / not specified. I'd guess that you want GetNamespaceOfPrefix:

string elementNamespace = elemet.GetNamespaceOfPrefix("xs").NamespaceName;

Although that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to be honest - I'm not really sure what you are after.

Answer 3

Scott Hanselman has an article on how to get the namespaces:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GetNamespacesFromAnXMLDocumentWithXPathDocumentAndLINQToXML.aspx