removing/extracting soap header and body from soap message

Question

I have a soap message shown below. I would like to get only request element and its child nodes.

Answer 1

You have the wrong namespace in your second example, and you didn't follow the complete example from the linked answer.

XNamespace.Get("soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope")

The parameter passed in to XNamespace.Get should be the URI only:

XNamespace.Get("http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope")

Then your second example will return something like:

<soap:Body xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
  <Request ReqRespVersion="large" Version="1" EchoToken="1.0" xmlns="http://mynamespace.com">
  </Request>
</soap:Body>

If you want just the child(ren) elements of the Body, then you need to add FirstNode like this:

SoapBody = myXDocument.Descendants(Xns + "Body").First().FirstNode.ToString()

Which will give you this:

<Request ReqRespVersion="large" Version="1" EchoToken="1.0" xmlns="http://mynamespace.com">
</Request>