How to change an XML element in a namespace with MSDeploy Parameters.xml file?

Question

I can\'t change an element in Web.config with MSDeploy. My Parameters.xml file:

Answer 1

the problem is the namespace declaration on the element. Your XPath query doesn't have a match because there is no element with an empty namespace (which is what the query is looking for).

Now, specifying XML namespaces in XPath is a tricky issue (in this case it's even impossible), so I'd suggest you use this expression instead:

"//spring/*/*[@id='CultureResolver']/@type"

HTH...