Question

I trying to parse the “message” element out of the following XML fragment using Linq to XML but for some reason it isn’t working:

<error xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata">
    <code/>
    <message xml:lang="en-US">Bad Request - Error in query syntax.</message>
</error>

I’m sure that I’m missing something stupid.

Answer 1

Well how does your code look, which is the result you expect, which one do you get, if you get an error post the exact error message. The fragment has a namespace so make sure when selecting elements you do something like this:

XElement error = XElement.Parse(fragment); 
XNamespace df = error.Name.Namespace; 
XElement msg = error.Element(df + "message");.