Empty namespace using Linq Xml

Question

I\'m trying to create a sitemap using Linq to Xml, but am getting an empty namespace attribute, which I would like to get rid of. e.g.

XNamespace ns = \"http         


        

Answer 1

The "more correct way" would be:

XDocument xdoc = new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "true"),
new XElement(ns + "urlset",
new XElement(ns + "url",
    new XElement(ns + "loc", "http://www.example.com/page"),
    new XElement(ns + "lastmod", "2008-09-14"))));

Same as your code, but with the "ns +" before every element name that needs to be in the sitemap namespace. It's smart enough not to put any unnecessary namespace declarations in the resulting XML, so the result is:

  
    http://www.example.com/page
    2008-09-14
  

which is, if I'm not mistaken, what you want.