XDocument Reading XML file with Root element having namespaces

Question

I am having some trouble parsing an XML file with the root node having multiple namespaces. I want to get a list of nodes \'object\' with type string containing \'UserContro

Answer 1

When you call Decendants with a XName parameter the XName'sNameSpace (which happened to be empty) is actually incorporated into the Name in addition to LocalName. So you can query just byLocalName

p.Descendants().Where(p=>p.Name.LocalName == "object")

Answer 2

Try using the namespace:

var ns = new XNamespace("http://www.springframework.net");
IEnumerable<XElement> values = webXMLResource.Descendants(ns + "object");

Answer 3

If you are using decedent than you have to add name space like below

 XDocument webXMLResource = XDocument.Load(@"../../../../Web.xml");
 XNamespace _XNamesapce = XNamespace.Get("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
 IEnumerable<XElement> values = from ele in webXMLResource .Descendants(_XNamesapce + "object")
                                select ele;

Hope it will work for you

Answer 4

One more trick with namespaces - you can use XElement.GetDefaultNamespace() to get default namespace of root element. Then use this default namespace for querying:

var xdoc = XDocument.Load(path_to_xml);
var ns = xdoc.Root.GetDefaultNamespace();
var objects = xdoc.Descendants(ns + "object");