Question

I have such XML structure which was returned by SharePoint web services.

<rs:data ItemCount="4" xmlns:rs="urn:company:rowset">
  <z:row ows_AssetId="HP010336520"  />
  <z:row ows_AssetId="HP010336519"  />
  <z:row ows_AssetId="HP010354403"  />
  <z:row ows_AssetId="HP010357062"  />
</rs:data>

    private static void Parser(List<XmlNode> data)
    {

        List<XmlNodeList> rows = (from row in data.AsEnumerable()
                            select row.SelectNodes("data/row")).ToList();
    }                               

I was trying to query for a row, but no luck. Could you guys please help me?

Answer 1

You need to use an XmlNamespaceManager when querying the node list. Not seen in your code is the declaration of the ‘z’ namespace in the document’s root: xmlns:z=”#RowsetSchema”.

Try the following in your Parser method:

    NameTable nameTable = new NameTable();
    XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(nameTable);
    nsmgr.AddNamespace("z", "#RowsetSchema");

    List<XmlNodeList> rows = (from row in data.AsEnumerable()
                              select row.SelectNodes("//z:row", nsmgr)).ToList();