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Reputation: 1034

Reading nodes with&without namespace tag

I need to read xml documents like this :

<wcs:CoverageOffering>
<wcs:description>Generated from GeoTIFF</wcs:description>
<wcs:name>ndh:ndh-cyclone-mortality-risks-distribution</wcs:name>
                            ....

But in some servers the xml document is implemented without namespace tag :

<CoverageOffering>
<description>Generated from GeoTIFF</description>
<name>ndh:ndh-cyclone-mortality-risks-distribution</name>
                         ....

How can I read both in an efficient way? (I wrote if else statements for each node to control this condition but it seems not a good way to do it)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 128

Answers (2)

Ria
Ria

Reputation: 10357

Use XmlDocument and add wcs namespace to XmlNamespaceManager:

var document = new XmlDocument();
document.Load(...);
var nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(document.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("wcs", "http://...your ns");

var nl = document.SelectNodes("your xpath", nsmgr);

Upvotes: 1

Chuck Savage
Chuck Savage

Reputation: 11955

You can use this XML Library. It will use a namespace if needed.

You can use it like:

XElement root = XElement.Load(file);
string description = root.Get("path/to/description", default(string));

or

string description = root.XGetElement("//description", default(string));

The default(string) is for type conversion for either Get. You can pass any default you desire.

Upvotes: 0

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