How do I get multiple namespaces in XML C#? - c#

Following is the XML format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<package version="2.0" unique-identifier="isbn0000000000000" xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
<metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
<dc:title>Eltern Family</dc:title>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher></dc:publisher>
<dc:rights></dc:rights>
<dc:identifier id="isbn0000000000000">0000000000000</dc:identifier>
<dc:language>de</dc:language>
<dc:date opf:event="publication">2019-02-11</dc:date>
</metadata>
</package>
Here I got the default Namespace by XDocument.Root.GetDefaultNamespace();. But as you can see, there are multiple namespaces in the <metadata> XML node. The problem is that, they are variable i.e., each XML may have different values, so I cannot declare a variable with one fixed value.
How do I get the namespaces, so that I can add values to the descendant elements?
Please help.
Regards
Aman

If, as you say, you want to set the content of dc:rights, then you need to get hold of that element.
You can do this by name - the 'qualified name' is made of of the namespace and a local name. The namespace prefix dc is not actually important in and of itself, it's just used as a shorthand to refer to the namespace within the document.
Assuming you have parsed this XML to an XDocument called doc:
XNamespace dc = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
var rights = doc.Descendants(dc + "rights").Single();
rights.Value = "text";

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tried the following above the Document as well as the Documents property:
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[XmlAttribute("xsi:type",Namespace ="somename")]
but that didn’t work :(
The xml I want to appear in the xml file is:
<someOtherElement></someOtherElement>
<someOtherElement></someOtherElement>
<Documents>
<Document xmlns:xsi="www.test.com" xsi:type=“somename”>
<Name></Name>
<DOB></DOB>
</Document>
</Documents>
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The following worked for the "somename" attribute:
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I have a XDocument with the following structure where I want to add a bunch of XElements.
<Document xmlns="urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:pain.001.001.03">
<CstmrCdtTrfInitn>
<GrpHdr>
...
</GrpHdr>
<!-- loaded nodes go here -->
<CstmrCdtTrfInitn>
</Document>
The XElements have the following structure:
<PmtInf xmlns="urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:pain.001.001.03">
...
</PmtInf>
The problem is that the namespace in child nodes is not supported at the recipients side and since it is the same as the XDocument's namespace - it is redundant. How do I avoid/remove that namespace on the child nodes?
The code that I use right now:
var childNodes = new XElement(NameSpace + "GrpHdr", ...);
XElement[] loadedNodes = ...;//Loads from a service using XElement.Load
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When calling Save on XElement or XDocument, there is a flags enum SaveOptions that allow you to control to some extent how the document is written to XML.
The easiest way to achieve what you want (without traversing the structure to remove the redundant attributes) is to use one of these flags: OmitDuplicateNamespaces.
Remove the duplicate namespace declarations while serializing.
You can see in this fiddle that adding this flag changes my example output from this:
<Document xmlns="urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:pain.001.001.03">
<CstmrCdtTrfInitn>
<GrpHdr />
<PmtInf xmlns="urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:pain.001.001.03">...</PmtInf>
</CstmrCdtTrfInitn>
</Document>
To this:
<Document xmlns="urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:pain.001.001.03">
<CstmrCdtTrfInitn>
<GrpHdr />
<PmtInf>...</PmtInf>
</CstmrCdtTrfInitn>
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I'm trying to create some xml nodes runtime using XPath for C#. See XML Below:
<Package xmlns:m2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2013/manifest" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2010/manifest">
<Application>
<m2:VisualElements>
<!--- INSERT CHILD NODES HERE WHICH ALSO HAVE NAMESPACE 'm2' ---->
</m2:VisualElements>
</Application>
</Package>
Currently I'm doing the following:
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visualElements.Add(new XElement(doc.Root.GetDefaultNamespace() + "InitialRotationPreference"));
I know that this is wrong since I reference the default namespace, this will result in this being added:
<InitialRotationPreference />
When I want:
<m2:InitialRotationPreference />
Is there some way to access the parent-nodes namespace (m2) without "knowing" the prefix or the namespace-url?
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XName name = visualElements.Name.Namespace + "InitialRotationPreference"
Or specify explicitly:
XName name = XName.Get("InitialRotationPreference",
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2013/manifest");
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<PrincetonStorageRequest
xmlns="http://munichre.com/eai/dss/pct/v1.0"
requestId="RequestOut_MAG_Test_02"
timestampUtc="2015-02-19T09:25:30.7138903Z">
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Try the following code - it stops the error when I test it locally just for the XML I think you're trying to get:
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writer.WriteStartDocument(true);
writer.WriteStartElement("PrincetonStorageRequest", "http://example.com/abc/dss/pct/v1.0");
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<PrincetonStorageRequest xmlns="http://example.com/abc/dss/pct/v1.0" requestId="RequestOut_MAG_Test_02" timestampUtc="2015-02-19T09:25:30.7138903Z">
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I am trying to read the entitysets within the EDMX file from Entity Framework.
The EDMX file (XML format) has the following layout:
<edmx:Edmx Version="3.0" xmlns:edmx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/11/edmx">
<edmx:Runtime>
<edmx:ConceptualModels>
<Schema Namespace="Model" Alias="Self" p1:UseStrongSpatialTypes="false" xmlns:annotation="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/02/edm/annotation" xmlns:p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/02/edm/annotation" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/11/edm">
<EntityContainer Name="EntityModel" p1:LazyLoadingEnabled="true">
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ns.AddNamespace("annotation", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/02/edm/annotation");
ns.AddNamespace("p1", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/02/edm/annotation");
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Hope you can help me out, already banging my head against the table. :)
Namespaces are a convention on how to combine two different XML dialects into a single document. Those prefixes really doesn't matter as long you keep your URI component exactly the same. For instance, take something like this:
ns.AddNamespace("xxx", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/11/edmx");
Console.WriteLine(xdoc.SelectNodes("/xxx:Edmx", ns).Count); // 1
You'll get one node because your namespace URI matched, despite your "wrong" namespace prefix.
If you have an attribute named xmlns, current element and it's children will inherits that namespace URI.
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// change "" to "edm"
ns.AddNamespace("edm", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/11/edm");
var entitySets = xdoc.SelectNodes("/edmx:Edmx/edmx:Runtime/edmx:ConceptualModels/edm:Schema/edm:EntityContainer/edm:EntitySet", ns);

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