Question

I call a wcf service like this:

XDocument xdoc = null;
xdoc = XDocument.Load("http:\\www.mydomain.com\service\helloservice");

I receive a xml snippet from WCF like the below:

<ArrayOfstring><string>hello</string><string>world</string><string>!</string></ArrayOfstring>

I am trying to get the content within the elements

my code is like this but I never get anything back:

  var i = (from n in xdoc.Descendants("string")
                 select new { text =  n.Value});

when I do xdoc.DescendantNodes() I get:

[0] "<ArrayOfstring xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <string>HELLO</string>
</ArrayOfstring>"

[1] "<string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">HELLO</string>"

[2] "Hello"

I am pretty new to this, I can’t figure out why linq won’t return results…Which Xdocument feature should I use? Some pointer would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

UPDATE

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Porgram
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string xml = "<ArrayOfstring  xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays\" xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"><string>hello</string><string>world</string><string>!</string></ArrayOfstring>";
            XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);

            XNamespace ns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays";

            var text = from str in doc.Root.Elements(ns + "string")
                    select str.Value;
            foreach (string str in text)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(str);
            }
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}