How to parse XML with namespace

Question

Bonjour,

I have an xml doc:

    
        XXX         


        

Answer 1

With XPathSelectElements you should provide namespace manager in order to use namespaces in XPath query:

var manager = new XmlNamespaceManager(new NameTable());
manager.AddNamespace("ns2", "XXXX");
manager.AddNamespace("ns", "XXXXX"); // default namespace

var names = from n in xdoc.XPathSelectElements("//ns2:feed/ns:name", manager)
            select (string)n;

Without XPath you should use XNamespace when providing name of node to find:

XNamespace ns = "XXXXX";
XNamespace ns2 = "XXXX";

var names = from f in xdoc.Descendants(ns2 + "feed")
            select (string)f.Element(ns + "name");