Creating a specific XML document using namespaces in C#

Question

We were given a sample document, and need to be able to reproduce the structure of the document exactly for a vendor. However, I\'m a little lost with how C# handles namesp

Answer 1

If you are using Visual Studio 2008 in the Samples folder you'll find a sample addin that let's you paste a XML fragment as Linq2XML code.

Scott Hanselman has a blog post with the details.

I think this is the quickest way to go from a sample XML doc to C# code that creates it.

Answer 2

I personally prefer to use the common XmlElement and its attributes for declaring namespaces. I know there are better ways, but this one never fails.

Try something like this:

xRootElement.SetAttribute("xmlns:xsi", "http://example.com/xmlns1");

Answer 3

You should try it that way

  XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();  

  XmlSchema schema = new XmlSchema();
  schema.Namespaces.Add("xmlns", "http://www.sample.com/file");

  doc.Schemas.Add(schema);

Do not forget to include the following namespaces:

using System.Xml.Schema;
using System.Xml;