Question

Lets assume we have this xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <tns:RegistryResponse status='urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:ResponseStatusType:Failure'     xmlns:tns='urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:xsd:rs:3.0'     xmlns:rim='urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:xsd:rim:3.0'>     <tns:RegistryErrorList highestSeverity=''>         <tns:RegistryError codeContext='XDSInvalidRequest - DcoumentId is not unique.'             errorCode='XDSInvalidRequest'             severity='urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:ErrorSeverityType:Error'/>     </tns:RegistryErrorList>  </tns:RegistryResponse> 

To retrieve RegistryErrorList element, we can do

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(<path to xml file>); XNamespace ns = 'urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:xsd:rs:3.0'; XElement errorList = doc.Root.Elements( ns + 'RegistryErrorList').SingleOrDefault(); 

but not like this

XElement errorList = doc.Root.Elements('RegistryErrorList').SingleOrDefault(); 

Is there a way to do the query without the namespace of the element. Basicly is there something conceptially similiar to using local-name() in XPath (i.e. //*[local-name()=’RegistryErrorList’])

Answer 1

var q = from x in doc.Root.Elements()         where x.Name.LocalName=='RegistryErrorList'         select x;  var errorList = q.SingleOrDefault();