Headache with namespaces ...

[Carlo Garcia]

Hi

I am having trouble with namespaces:

Using the .NET System.XML classes, whenever I run an xpath on a file with a
namespace, the xpath query returns nothing, but when I remove the namespace
from the xml file I am quering, the xpath query works.

I am trying to run a SelectSingleNode(xpath) function on an XmlNode, but
when the source xml file has a default namespace, for example:
"xmlns="urn:blah-org:v3" in the root node, then the SelectSingleNode function
does not return anything.

When I remove the default namespace from the source xml file, the the
SelectSingleNode(xpath) function/query works.

What should the xpath be to be able to select nodes from a xml file with a
namespace? Or am I missing something else.

Thanks for you time and your help!

Carlo

[Martin Honnen]

Carlo Garcia wrote:

Using the .NET System.XML classes, whenever I run an xpath on a file with a
namespace, the xpath query returns nothing, but when I remove the namespace
from the xml file I am quering, the xpath query works.

I am trying to run a SelectSingleNode(xpath) function on an XmlNode, but
when the source xml file has a default namespace, for example:
"xmlns="urn:blah-org:v3" in the root node, then the SelectSingleNode function
does not return anything.

When I remove the default namespace from the source xml file, the the
SelectSingleNode(xpath) function/query works.

What should the xpath be to be able to select nodes from a xml file with a
namespace? Or am I missing something else.

XPath 1.0 doesn't know a default namespace so you need to assign a
prefix to that namespace and use the prefix in your XPath expression e.g.
/prefix:element-name
You do not have to change anything in the XML file but your .NET code
has to make use of a NamespaceManager e.g.
XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
xmlDocument.Load(@"whatever.xml");

XmlNamespaceMangager namespaceManager = new
XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDocument.NameTable)

namespaceManager.AddNamespace("prefix", "urn:blah-org:v3");
then you can use
xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("/prefix:element-name", namespaceManager)

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Carlo Garcia]

Excellent, thanks Marting ... that did the trick!

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

Carlo Garcia wrote:

Using the .NET System.XML classes, whenever I run an xpath on a file with a
namespace, the xpath query returns nothing, but when I remove the namespace
from the xml file I am quering, the xpath query works.

I am trying to run a SelectSingleNode(xpath) function on an XmlNode, but
when the source xml file has a default namespace, for example:
"xmlns="urn:blah-org:v3" in the root node, then the SelectSingleNode function
does not return anything.

When I remove the default namespace from the source xml file, the the
SelectSingleNode(xpath) function/query works.

What should the xpath be to be able to select nodes from a xml file with a
namespace? Or am I missing something else.

XPath 1.0 doesn't know a default namespace so you need to assign a
prefix to that namespace and use the prefix in your XPath expression e.g.
/prefix:element-name
You do not have to change anything in the XML file but your .NET code
has to make use of a NamespaceManager e.g.
XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
xmlDocument.Load(@"whatever.xml");

XmlNamespaceMangager namespaceManager = new
XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDocument.NameTable)

namespaceManager.AddNamespace("prefix", "urn:blah-org:v3");
then you can use
xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("/prefix:element-name", namespaceManager)

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/