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Charles Morrison
Charles Morrison

Reputation: 428

xml multiple namespaces in root

I am having trouble generating an xml root. I have to match this structure as the elements of the xml use the prefixs throughout.

<ShipmentReceiptNotification
xmlns="urn:rosettanet:specification:interchange:ShipmentReceiptNotification:xsd:schema:02.02"
xmlns:dacc="urn:rosettanet:specification:domain:Procurement:AccountClassification:xsd:codelist:01.03"
xmlns:dbpq="urn:rosettanet:specification:domain:Procurement:BookPriceQualifier:xsd:codelist:01.04"
xmlns:dccc="urn:rosettanet:specification:domain:Procurement:CreditCardClassification:xsd:codelist:01.03"
xmlns:dcrt="urn:rosettanet:specification:domain:Procurement:CustomerType:xsd:codelist:01.03"
..\..\XML\Interchange\ShipmentReceiptNotification_02_02.xsd">

if I do something like

XmlNode ShipmentReceiptNotification0Node = xmlDoc.CreateElement("ShipmentReceiptNotification", "xmlns=\"urn:rosettanet:specification:interchange:ShipmentReceiptNotification:xsd:schema:02.02\"xmlns:dacc=\"urn:rosettanet:specification:domain:Procurement:AccountClassification:xsd:codelist:01.03\"");

I get

-ShipmentReceiptNotification xmlns="xmlns="urn:rosettanet:specification:interchange:ShipmentReceiptNotification:xsd:schema:02.02"xmlns:dacc=&

quot;urn:rosettanet:specification:domain:Procurement:AccountClassification:xsd:codelist:01.03"">

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1379

Answers (1)

Ondrej Tucny
Ondrej Tucny

Reputation: 27962

The second argument of CreateElement accepts the URI of the namespace that the element being created, that is ShipmentReceiptNotification, belongs to. Not the whole bunch of xmlns attributes. This code:

XmlElement e = xmlDoc.CreateElement(
    "ShipmentReceiptNotification",
    "urn:rosettanet:specification:interchange:ShipmentReceiptNotification:xsd:schema:02.02");

Produces this XML:

<ShipmentReceiptNotification 
    xmlns="urn:rosettanet:specification:interchange:ShipmentReceiptNotification:xsd:schema:02.02" />

To produce what you want, you need to add attributes to the element. Like this:

XmlElement e = xmlDoc.CreateElement("ShipmentReceiptNotification");
e.SetAttribute("xmlns", "urn:rosettanet:specification:interchange:ShipmentReceiptNotification:xsd:schema:02.02");
e.SetAttribute("xmlns:dacc", "urn:rosettanet:specification:domain:Procurement:AccountClassification:xsd:codelist:01.03");

Produces this XML:

<ShipmentReceiptNotification 
    xmlns="urn:rosettanet:specification:interchange:ShipmentReceiptNotification:xsd:schema:02.02" 
    xmlns:dacc="urn:rosettanet:specification:domain:Procurement:AccountClassification:xsd:codelist:01.03" />

Note that this is the “manual” way. You should play with XmlNamespaceManager to do it “right”. However, that may be a bit more complex task which need not be necessary for your scenario.

Upvotes: 1

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