SelectSingleNode return null - even with namespace

问题

I know this question has been asked in a similar fashion before, but I can't seem to get this working.

I have some xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
    <Research xmlns="http://www.rixml.org/2005/3/RIXML" xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" createDateTime="2011-03-29T15:41:48Z" language="eng" researchID="MusiJvs3008">
    <Product productID="MusiJvs3008">
    <StatusInfo currentStatusIndicator="Yes" statusDateTime="2011-03-29T15:41:48Z" statusType="Published" />
    <Source>
    <Organization type="SellSideFirm" primaryIndicator="Yes">
    <OrganizationID idType="Reuters">9999</OrganizationID>

And I'm trying to read values using xpath:

XPathDocument xmldoc = new XPathDocument(xmlFile); 
XPathNavigator nav = xmldoc.CreateNavigator(); 
XmlNamespaceManager nsMgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(nav.NameTable);
nsMgr.AddNamespace(string.Empty, "http://www.rixml.org/2005/3/RIXML"); 
XPathNavigator result = nav.SelectSingleNode("/Research", nsMgr); // <-- Returns null!

But even a simple select of the root node returns null! I am sure I have something wrong with my namespace. Can someone please help?

Ideally I want simple lines that will let me select values from the xml file, i.e.

String a = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode(@"/Research/Product/Content/Title").Value;

BTW, I have no (direct) control over the XML file content.

回答1:

I don't believe you can use an empty namespace alias and have it used automatically by the XPath expression. As soon as you use an actual alias, it should work though. This test is fine, for example:

using System;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.XPath;

class Test
{
    static void Main() 
    {
        string xmlFile = "test.xml";
        XPathDocument xmldoc = new XPathDocument(xmlFile); 
        XPathNavigator nav = xmldoc.CreateNavigator(); 
        XmlNamespaceManager nsMgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(nav.NameTable);
        nsMgr.AddNamespace("x", "http://www.rixml.org/2005/3/RIXML"); 
        XPathNavigator result = nav.SelectSingleNode("/x:Research", nsMgr);
        Console.WriteLine(result);
    }
}

Do you have to use XPath and XPathDocument, by the way? I tend to find that LINQ to XML is a much more pleasant API, particularly when it comes to namespaces. If you're using .NET 3.5 and you have no particular requirement to use XPath, I'd suggest you check it out.

回答2:

Make the following changes

nsMgr.AddNamespace("x", "http://www.rixml.org/2005/3/RIXML"); 
XPathNavigator result = nav.SelectSingleNode("/x:Research", nsMgr);

回答3:

i could post, and answer my own question, for the native equivalent of this code. Instead i'll just add it as an answer to the end.

When using the native IXMLDOMDocument (version 6) object:

//Give the default namespace as alias of "x"
document.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces","xmlns:x='http://www.rixml.org/2005/3/RIXML'");

//Query for the nodes we want
document.selectSingleNode("/x:Research");

Bonus Question: Why, oh why, does no Xml Document object model query the default namespace when no namespace is specified... sigh

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5488984/selectsinglenode-return-null-even-with-namespace

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