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Waqar Janjua
Waqar Janjua

Reputation: 6123

Load XElement from string without namespaces

I want to load an XElement from XML string that contains prefixes of namespaces. For example:

string template = @"<com:PersonName>
  <com:FirstName>def</com:FirstName>
      <com:LastName>abc</com:LastName>
  </com:PersonName>";

In above XML com refers to a namespace like xmlns:com = "somevalue" When I used XElement.Parse(xml) method it throws an error.

I have also tried to load such XML in XmlDocument and it allows me to achieve this using xmlreader and set namespaces to off but I want to do it using XDocuemnt or XElement.

Is it possible to load this string in Xelement without providing namespace ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1354

Answers (1)

Jeff Mercado
Jeff Mercado

Reputation: 134841

Ultimately you have to provide a namespace for the prefix, otherwise you won't be able to parse it into an XElement. One way you can work around this is to add to the string a dummy root element with a namespace definition and parse it. Then get the child element from the parsed node.

var template = @"<com:PersonName>
<com:FirstName>def</com:FirstName>
    <com:LastName>abc</com:LastName>
</com:PersonName>";
var fixedTemplate = $"<root xmlns:com=\"somevalue\">{template}</root>";
var element = XElement.Parse(fixedTemplate).Elements().Single();

Upvotes: 2

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