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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:11:43+00:00

So I have some XML in the following format: <somenode> <html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml> <head> <title/>

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So I have some XML in the following format:

<somenode>     <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>         <head>             <title/>         </head>         <body>             <p>P one</p>             <p>Another p</p>         </body>     </html> </somenode>

Nestled in there is some html, which I didn’t think would be an issue as it would just be treated as xml.

I’m trying to select the contents (InnerXml) of the <body> tag. However, using

xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode('somenode/html/body')

returns null, and using

xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName('body')[0].InnerXml

gives the InnerXml – but each <p> has xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' appended to it – so the result looks like: 

<p xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>P one</p><p xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Another p</p>

Can anyone shed some light on this? Seems like some really weird behavior, any help would be appreciated. I’m only using ASP.net 2.0, so unfortunately trying linq isn’t an option.

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  1. Your xpath expression isn’t specifying the default namespace. How about:

    XmlNamespaceManager nsMgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable); nsMgr.AddNamespace('xhtml', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml');  XmlNode node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode('somenode/xhtml:html/xhtml:body', nsMgr);
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