Hi,


I can't for the life of me get this to work properly. I've searched for
examples, but none of the examples quite match my environment. Here is my
XML (please treat this as immutable -- no solutions involving altering the
XML are good for me):

---- config.xml ----

<Configuration
xmlns="urn:server:schemas:configuration"
xmlns:f="urn:server:schemas:faq">
<version version="0.0.0001">
<f:faq>
<f:section>Default</f:section>
<f:item>
<f:q>What is the meaning of life?</f:q>
<f:a>42.</f:a>
</f:item>
</f:faq>
</version>
</Configuration>

I want to have an XmlNode object referencing the first <faq> tag. Here is
the corresponding c# code:

XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
xd.Load("config.xml");
XmlNamespaceManager xnm = new XmlNamespaceManager(xd.NameTable);
xnm.AddNamespace(String.Empty, "urn:server:schemas:configuration");
xnm.AddNamespace("f", "urn:server:schemas:faq"); // faq container namespace
XmlNode xnFaq = xd.SelectSingleNode(

"/Configuration/version[@version=\"0.0.0001\"]/f:faq[f:section=\"Default\"]"
, xnm);

This fails to select the f:faq node. I've tried using the following also:

xnm.AddNamespace("c", "urn:server:schemas:configuration");
xnm.AddNamespace("f", "urn:server:schemas:faq"); // faq container namespace
XmlNode xnFaq = xd.SelectSingleNode(

"/c:Configuration/c:version[@c:version=\"0.0.0001\"]/f:faq[f:section=\"Defau
lt\"]", xnm);

I'm beginning to lose the mind here people; any ideas? Cheers!

- Oisin

"Steven Livingstone" <s.livingstone (AT) nospam (DOT) btinternet.com> wrote

Nope, that's not it. If I strip the default namespace declaration out of the
xml, e.g. the root tag is just <Configuration>, everything works fine. But
like I mentioned, this is not an option for me. Thanks for the try anyway.

- Oisin

Right -- for the benefit of the rest of the group, the problem was in the
XPath query;

if should have been:

/c:Configuration/c:version[@version=\"0.0.0001\"] ...

instead of

/c:Configuration/c:version[@c:version=\"0.0.0001\"] ...

I was qualifying the attribute with a namespace prefix and I didn't need to.
Guess I'd better read up a little more on schema defaults

- Oisin



"Oisin Grehan" <oising (AT) nospam (DOT) iol.ie.> wrote

<snip />

ok, with the c prefix try.. (sorry not to take more time but i'm rushed of
my feet for the next couple of hours!)

"/c:Configuration/c:version[@version='0.0.0001']/f:faq[f:section='Default']"
, xnm);


"Oisin Grehan" <oising (AT) nospam (DOT) iol.ie.> wrote