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my code attempts to grab data from the RSS feed of a website. It grabs the nodes fine, but when attempting to grab the data from a node with a colon, it crashes and gives the error "Namespace Manager or XsltContext needed. This query has a prefix, variable, or user-defined function." The code is shown below: WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://buypoe.com/external.php?type=RSS2&lastpost=true"); WebResponse response = request.GetResponse(); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(""); System.IO.StreamReader rssStream = new System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), System.Text

How can I change an attribute of an element in an XML file, using C#? El Padrino Mike; Everytime I need to modify an XML document I work it this way: //Here is the variable with which you assign a new value to the attribute string newValue = string.Empty; XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument(); xmlDoc.Load(xmlFile); XmlNode node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("Root/Node/Element"); node.Attributes[0].Value = newValue; xmlDoc.Save(xmlFile); //xmlFile is the path of your file to be modified I hope you find it useful alexmac Using LINQ to xml if you are using framework 3.5: using System.Xml.Linq;

When I build XML up from scratch with XmlDocument , the OuterXml property already has everything nicely indented with line breaks. However, if I call LoadXml on some very "compressed" XML (no line breaks or indention) then the output of OuterXml stays that way. So ... What is the simplest way to get beautified XML output from an instance of XmlDocument ? Neil C. Obremski Based on the other answers, I looked into XmlTextWriter and came up with the following helper method: static public string Beautify(this XmlDocument doc) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); XmlWriterSettings settings =

As part of the base class for some extensive unit testing, I am writing a helper function which recursively compares the nodes of one XmlDocument object to another in C# (.NET). Some requirements of this: The first document is the source , e.g. what I want the XML document to look like. Thus the second is the one I want to find differences in and it must not contain extra nodes not in the first document. Must throw an exception when too many significant differences are found, and it should be easily understood by a human glancing at the description. Child element order is important, attributes