Question

I have this problem:

I have a method

private  XmlElement ToXmlElement(string xml)
        {
            XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
            doc.LoadXml(xml);
            return doc.DocumentElement;
        }

And my input xml string is:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Collection xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="urn:IEEE-1671:2009.02:Common">
<Item name="edsw">
<Collection />
</Item>
</Collection>

I need to return from this string XmlElement, which looks like:

<Collection xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="urn:IEEE-1671:2009.02:Common">
    <Item name="edsw">
    <Collection />
    </Item>
    </Collection>

thats everything without <?xml version ="1.0"?>
but doc.DocumentElements returns me only:

<Item name="edsw" xmlns="urn:IEEE-1671:2009.02:Common">
<Collection />
</Item>

is there any way how to achieve it?

Answer 1

Look at the OuterXml, that’s where you will find what you need:

doc.DocumentElement.OuterXml