extracting project path in a csproj -- grrrr!!

[Barfy the Wonder Camel]

I'm using FinalBuilder to automate our builds. We've had it working
with VS2003 for a long time, now we're upgrading to VS2005 (I'm aware
that 2008 is out now. Geroffit.)

I'm trying to extract the OutputPath from the appropriate
PropertyGroup (Debug/Release) in the csproj using XPATH. I've
discovered after much trial and error, and many inventive curses, that
it works as long as I remove the xmlns clause from the Project node
at the top, but fails otherwise. Incidentally,
http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 doesn't appear to
exist anyway, so what the hell?

Anyone have any idea what's going on? FYI, I'm doing this very ad-hoc.
I have no real knowledge of XML internals.

[Joe Fawcett]

"Barfy the Wonder Camel" <go******@yahoo.cawrote in message
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I'm using FinalBuilder to automate our builds. We've had it working
with VS2003 for a long time, now we're upgrading to VS2005 (I'm aware
that 2008 is out now. Geroffit.)

I'm trying to extract the OutputPath from the appropriate
PropertyGroup (Debug/Release) in the csproj using XPATH. I've
discovered after much trial and error, and many inventive curses, that
it works as long as I remove the xmlns clause from the Project node
at the top, but fails otherwise. Incidentally,
http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 doesn't appear to
exist anyway, so what the hell?

Anyone have any idea what's going on? FYI, I'm doing this very ad-hoc.
I have no real knowledge of XML internals.

Take a look at this link on matching nodes in a namespace:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N5536.html
Especially numbers 13 and 23.
(There is no reason for there to be a file at:
http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003, namespaces are just
unique strings that differentiate node names.)
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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name