Question

Here is the sample XML that I am receiving from the web service.

<xml xmlns:s='uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882'
xmlns:dt='uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882'
xmlns:rs='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset'
xmlns:z='#RowsetSchema'>
<s:Schema id='RowsetSchema'>
<s:ElementType name='row' content='eltOnly'>
    <s:AttributeType name='NAME' rs:number='1'>
        <s:datatype dt:type='string' rs:dbtype='str' dt:maxLength='25'
         rs:maybenull='false'/>
    </s:AttributeType>
    <s:AttributeType name='DESCRIPTION' rs:number='2' rs:nullable='true'
         rs:writeunknown='true'>
        <s:datatype dt:type='string' rs:dbtype='str' dt:maxLength='80'/>
    </s:AttributeType>
    <s:extends type='rs:rowbase'/>
</s:ElementType>
</s:Schema>
<rs:data>
<z:row NAME='JOE BLOW' DESCRIPTION='PROGRAMMER'/>
<z:row NAME='ANN SMITH' DESCRIPTION='FRONT DESK'/>
<z:row NAME='STEVE JOHNSON' DESCRIPTION='TESTER'/>
</rs:data>
</xml>

I’m not sure how to go about getting to the <rs:data> node. I eventually want to enumerate through each <z:row> and get the attributes NAME and DESCRPTION. The webservice returns this to me as a string so I load the string into an XMLDocument like this:

XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
xDoc.LoadXml(xmlString);

Now, I’m not sure if I need to use a XmlNamespaceManager in order to tel my xDoc to import the <s:Schema>

I’ve tried to select a single node with an XPath with no luck because of the prefix rs.

XmlNode xNode = xDoc.SelectSingleNode("/rs:data");

If there is any further information needed, please ask.

Answer 1

If you are taking the xml as a string try parsing it like instead of using Load()

var xml = XDocument.Parse(xmlstring);

You have to use the namespace to get hold of the data properly.

XNamespace ns = "#RowsetSchema";

foreach (var element in xml.Descendants().Elements(ns + "row"))
{
    Console.WriteLine ("Name = " + element.Attribute("NAME").Value + ", " + "Description = " + element.Attribute("DESCRIPTION").Value); 
}