Question

Im having a problem with the XML in this function and many functions like it.

Error

XML axis properties do not support late binding.

Namespace

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System.Web
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml.Linq

Function

Public Shared Function get_intro(ByVal root_folder As String) As String
    Dim content As String = ""
    Dim docXML = XDocument.Load(root_folder & print_shop_doc)
    Dim intro_doc = From doc In docXML...<d:printshopdoc> _
            Select New With {.intro = doc.<d:intro>.Value}
    content = "<p" & no_indent & ">" & intro_doc(0).intro & "</p>" & vbCrLf
    Return content
End Function

docXML...<d:printshopdoc> 

seems to be where the error is occurring and I’m not quite sure how to fix it.

Answer 1

Does putting an XML namespace declaration Imports <xmlns:d="http://example.com/"> (where instead of http://example.com/ you put the namespace URI used in the input XML) fix the problem?