Search XDocument using LINQ without knowing the namespace

Question

Is there a way to search an XDocument without knowing the namespace? I have a process that logs all SOAP requests and encrypts the sensitive data. I want to find any elemen

Answer 1

I think I found what I was looking for. You can see in the following code I do the evaluation Element.Name.LocalName == "CreditCardNumber". This seemed to work in my tests. I'm not sure if it's a best practice, but I'm going to use it.

XDocument xDocument = XDocument.Load(@"C:\temp\Packet.xml");
var elements = xDocument.Root.DescendantsAndSelf().Elements().Where(d => d.Name.LocalName == "CreditCardNumber");

Now I have elements where I can encrypt the values.

If anyone has a better solution, please provide it. Thanks.