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Parse Xml with multiple namespaces with C#

I have been unable to parse an Xml which contains multiple namespaces as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header>
<h:ServerVersionInfo xmlns:h="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" MajorVersion="14" MinorVersion="3" MajorBuildNumber="352" MinorBuildNumber="0" Version="Exchange2010_SP2" />
</s:Header>
<s:Body xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<GetMailTipsResponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" ResponseClass="Success">
<ResponseCode>NoError</ResponseCode>
<ResponseMessages>
<MailTipsResponseMessageType ResponseClass="Success">
<ResponseCode>NoError</ResponseCode>
<m:MailTips xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages">
<t:RecipientAddress xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
<t:Name />
<t:EmailAddress>emailaddress#organization.com</t:EmailAddress>
<t:RoutingType>SMTP</t:RoutingType>
</t:RecipientAddress>
<t:PendingMailTips xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" />
<t:OutOfOffice xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
<t:ReplyBody>
<t:Message />
</t:ReplyBody>
</t:OutOfOffice>
</m:MailTips>
</MailTipsResponseMessageType>
</ResponseMessages>
</GetMailTipsResponse>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
I tried the following code but as you can see the first node with Soap Name Space works fine but thereafter I am unable to retrieve the node information that I need which is the node -
/s:Envelope/s:Body/GetMailTipsResponse/ResponseMessages/MailTipsResponseMessageType/m:MailTips/t:RecipientAddress/t:Message
Here is the code that I tried:
string getXmlInfo (string resultXml)
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(resultXml);
XmlNamespaceManager soapNsManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
soapNsManager.AddNamespace("s", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
XmlNode xmlNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//s:Envelope/s:Body", soapNsManager); //works fine - the node now contains the Xml starting with the node
XmlNode xmlNode1 = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//s:Envelope/s:Body/GetMailTipsResponse/ResponseMessages/MailTipsResponseMessageType", soapNsManager); //returns NULL
XmlNode innerNode1 = xmlNode.SelectSingleNode("//GetMailTipsResponse/ResponseMessages/MailTipsResponseMessageType"); // returns NULL
XmlNode innerNode2 = xmlNode.SelectSingleNode("//GetMailTipsResponse", soapNsManager); //returns NULL
// the next line throws an exception
//XmlNode messageNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/s:Envelope/s:Body/GetMailTipsResponse/ResponseMessages/MailTipsResponseMessageType/m:MailTips/t:RecipientAddress/t:Message", manager);
}
Here is what I tried based on response from #LocEngineer:
XmlNamespaceManager manager = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
manager.AddNamespace("s", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
manager.AddNamespace("blank", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types");
manager.AddNamespace("m", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types");
manager.AddNamespace("t", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types");
XmlNode messageNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/s:Envelope/s:Body/blank:GetMailTipsResponse/blank:ResponseMessages/blank:MailTipsResponseMessageType/m:MailTips/t:OutOfOffice/t:ReplyBody/t:Message", manager);
The messageNode shows up as NULL

You also need an XmlNamespaceManager prefix for the prefix-less namespace introduced in GetMailTipsResponse node, which contains the nodes without prefix in XML:
GetMailTipsResponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages"
And then use that in your XPath appropriately, using "m" as prefix for the prefix-less nodes:
XmlNamespaceManager soapNsManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
soapNsManager.AddNamespace("s", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
soapNsManager.AddNamespace("m", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages");
XmlNode xmlNode1 = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/s:Envelope/s:Body/m:GetMailTipsResponse/m:ResponseMessages/m:MailTipsResponseMessageType", soapNsManager);

Null return on XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode through valid xpath

I currently have the following code
nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("soapenv", soapenv_namespace);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("de", de_namespace);
XmlNode xnEnvelope = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//soapenv:Envelope", nsmgr);
XmlNode xnBody = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//soapenv:Envelope/soapenv:Body", nsmgr);
XmlNode xnMessage = xnBody.SelectSingleNode("//soapenv:Envelope/soapenv:Body/message", nsmgr);
Which parses the following xml (truncated for readibility)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Body>
<message xmlns="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractDetailResponse" xmlns:ns2="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractReferenceResponse" xmlns:ns3="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractRequest" xmlns:ns4="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/tech/v1.0/SOAPFaultDetail">
<de:m_content .....
Problem is the line
XmlNode xnMessage = xnBody.SelectSingleNode("//soapenv:Envelope/soapenv:Body/message", nsmgr); returns null when i'd expect it to return the message element.
I highly suspect its to do with the blank namespace I have configured but I cant find the right combination of values to get it working.
Any pointers would be appreciated.

You have introduced default namespace here :
xmlns="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractDetailResponse"
which causes message element and all of it's descendants without prefix to be recognized as in that default namespace (unless the descendant element has local default namespace). To access element in default namespace, simply register a prefix, for example d, and map it to the default namespace uri :
nsmgr.AddNamespace("d", "http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractDetailResponse");
Then use the newly registered prefix accordingly in the XPath expression :
XmlNode xnBody = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//soapenv:Envelope/soapenv:Body", nsmgr);
XmlNode xnMessage = xnBody.SelectSingleNode("d:message", nsmgr);

This is working
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(#"C:\Users\DummyUser\Desktop\Noname1.xml");
XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("soapenv", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
nsmgr.AddNamespace("de", "http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractDetailResponse");
XmlNode xnEnvelope = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//soapenv:Envelope", nsmgr);
XmlNode xnBody = xnEnvelope.SelectSingleNode("//soapenv:Body", nsmgr);
XmlNode xnMessage = xnBody.SelectSingleNode("de:message", nsmgr);
and xml file is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Body>
<message xmlns="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractDetailResponse" xmlns:ns2="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractReferenceResponse"
xmlns:ns3="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/ce/v2.1/CEBondSingleContractRequest"
xmlns:ns4="http://www.origostandards.com/schema/tech/v1.0/SOAPFaultDetail">
This is my sample message
</message>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Trying to change a XML node with no success

I'm trying to change a the value for the model atribute from the following .xml file.
<MTConnectDevices xmlns="urn:mtconnect.org:MTConnectDevices:1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:mtconnect.org:MTConnectDevices:1.1 http://www.mtconnect.org/schemas/MTConnectDevices_1.1.xsd">
<Header version="1.1" sender="Company MTConnect Instance" creationTime="2010-08-26T19:00:47-07:00" instanceId="2" bufferSize="131072" />
<Devices>
<Device name="XX" iso841Class="1" uuid="000" id="id1001">
<Description manufacturer="name" serialNumber="Serial Number" model="UNDEFINED">
</Description>
This is what I've tried but it's not working as it's not changing the value for model.
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(mypath);
var nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("ns", xmlDoc.DocumentElement.NamespaceURI);
var node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/ns:MTConnectDevices/ns:Header/ns:Devices/ns:Device/ns:Description", nsmgr);
node.Attributes["model"].Value = "changed";
xmlDoc.Save(mypath);
Can anyone give me a hand and tell me how to fix this?

Your xml contains namespaces, so you have to use them while retrieving node.
It can be done something like this:
var nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("ns", xmlDoc.DocumentElement.NamespaceURI);
var node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/ns:MTConnectDevices/ns:Devices/ns:Device/ns:Description", nsmgr);

Unable to Read XML using C# and XmlDocument

I would like to read a XML File with C#, but i always get an error.
This is my XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<OMDS xmlns="urn:omds20" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:omds20 ./omds26-00.xsd">
<PAKET VUNr="014" PaketZpktErstell="2014-08-29T10:45:08.575" PaketZpktLetztErstell="2014-08-29T10:45:08.575" PaketInhCd="VM" PaketUmfCd="G" VUVersion="26-00" DVRNrAbs="0">
<PERSON ....
<PERSON ....
<PERSON ....
I would like to read this XML, but XMLContentNodes is always null. So i am unable to get the SelectSingleNode with this Path, but i cant find out what should be wrong here?
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(openFileDialog1.FileName);
XmlNode XMLContentNodes = doc.SelectSingleNode("/OMDS/PAKET"); // Error Here
XmlNodeList PersonNodeList = XMLContentNodes.SelectNodes("PERSON");
foreach (XmlNode node in PersonNodeList)
{
.....
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The usual namespace problem. Try
XmlNamespaceManager mgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(new NameTable());
mgr.AddNamespace("d", "urn:omds20");
XmlNode XMLContentNodes = doc.SelectSingleNode("/d:OMDS/d:PAKET", mgr);
XmlNodeList PersonNodeList = XMLContentNodes.SelectNodes("d:PERSON", mgr);

You'll need to add the namespace urn:omds20 to the doc XmlDocument object after loading your XML file in it. It will look like the following:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(openFileDialog1.FileName);
XmlNamespaceManager xmlnsManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);
xmlnsManager.AddNamespace("omds20", "urn:omds20");
Then you can query for the PAKET node like this:
XmlNode paketNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("/omds20:OMDS/omds20:PAKET", xmlnsManager);

How to get a node from xml with c#- what am I doing wrong?

Namespaces and XML are still confusing the hell out of me.
Here is my XML (that comes from a SOAP request)
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<MyResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<OutputXML xmlns="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd">
<Result>
<OutputXML>
<Result>
<Foo>
<Bar />
</Foo>
</Result>
</OutputXML>
</Result>
</OutputXML>
</MyResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
I am trying to extract the actual XML part from the SOAP response (starting with the Foo element):
var nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(document.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("soap", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
nsmgr.AddNamespace("", "http://tempuri.org/");
nsmgr.AddNamespace("", "http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd");
var xml = document.DocumentElement
.SelectSingleNode("Foo", nsmgr)
.InnerXml;
But SelectSingleNode returns null. I've tried some different variations on this but can't get anything working. What am I not understanding?

Try this one:
var nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(document.NameTable);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("aaa", "http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd");
var xml = document.DocumentElement
.SelectSingleNode("aaa:Foo", nsmgr)
.InnerXml;
this is because of Default namespaces has no perfix.
You can use GetElementsByTagName to use namespace uri directly:
var xml = document.GetElementsByTagName("Foo",
"http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd")[0].InnerXml;

You can use LINQ to XML to get your result, also specify the namespace
XDocument document = XDocument.Load("test.xml");
XNamespace ns = "http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd";
var test = document.Descendants(ns + "Foo").FirstOrDefault();
Or if you don't want to specify NameSpace then:
var test2 = document.Descendants()
.Where(a => a.Name.LocalName == "Foo")
.FirstOrDefault();