Selecting namespaced XML node attributes with namespace alias instead of URI on an XElement

Question

I\'m trying to query out some information from a heavily namespaced XML document and am having some trouble finding attributes that are also namespaced.

The XML looks li

Answer 1

using Linq to xml

XNamespace skos = XNamespace.Get("http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#");
XNamespace geo = XNamespace.Get("http://www.geonames.org/ontology#");
XNamespace rdfs = XNamespace.Get("http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#");

XDocument rdf = XDocument.Load(new StringReader(xmlstr));
foreach(var country in rdf.Descendants(geo + "Country"))
{
    Console.WriteLine(
        country.Attribute(skos + "notation").Value + " "  + 
        country.Attribute(rdfs + "label").Value );
}

Answer 2

You can use System.Linq:

country.Attributes().Where(a => a.Name.LocalName == "notation")?.First()?.Value;