Question

I am trying to get some XML data with LINQ, but running into a problem.

I am using a schema, which is set in the attribute xmlns …

<CarsForSale xmlns='http://schemas.sharplogic.net/CarSales.xsd'>   <CarForSale> 

There are many CarForSale elements.

When the schema is set and I do this…

XElement doc = XElement.Load(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath('App_Data/XML/CarsForSale.xml'));  var cars2 = from d in doc.Descendants('CarForSale')             select d; 

Then I get in the results i get Enumeration yielded no results

Strip the xmlns out of the XML file and the data comes back as expected??

Any ideas?

Thx

Answer 1

You need to prepend the namespace:

var ns    = 'http://schemas.sharplogic.net/CarSales.xsd'; var cars2 = from d in doc.Descendants(ns + 'CarForSale')                         select d; 

otherwise search by local name:

var cars2 = from d in doc.Descendants()             where d.Name.LocalName == 'CarForSale'                         select d;