How do I use XPath with a default namespace with no prefix?

Question

What is the XPath (in C# API to XDocument.XPathSelectElements(xpath, nsman) if it matters) to query all MyNodes from this document?

Answer 1

Here's an example of how to make the namespace available to the XPath expression in the XPathSelectElements extension method:

using System;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.XPath;
using System.Xml;
namespace XPathExpt
{
 class Program
 {
   static void Main(string[] args)
   {
     XElement cfg = XElement.Parse(
       @"
          
            
          
         ");
     XmlNameTable nameTable = new NameTable();
     var nsMgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(nameTable);
     // Tell the namespace manager about the namespace
     // of interest (lcmp), and give it a prefix (pfx) that we'll
     // use to refer to it in XPath expressions. 
     // Note that the prefix choice is pretty arbitrary at 
     // this point.
     nsMgr.AddNamespace("pfx", "lcmp");
     foreach (var el in cfg.XPathSelectElements("//pfx:MyNode", nsMgr))
     {
         Console.WriteLine("Found element named {0}", el.Name);
     }
   }
 }
}