This is my xml generated for retrieving members of a group. I need to get the value tech\abc1234 from this xml.
<tcm:Trustee xlink:href="tcm:0-61-65552" xlink:type="simple" xlink:title="tech\abc1234" Type="65552" Icon="T65552L0P0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:tcm="http://www.tridion.com/ContentManager/5.0"></tcm:Trustee>
But when i try to get the attribute value like:
XElement userList = csClient.GetListXml(grpId, members);
foreach (var eachuser in userList.Elements())
{
logdetails(eachuser.Attribute("xlink:title").Value.ToString());
}
I am getting the following error :
error The ':' character, hexadecimal value 0x3A, cannot be included in a name.
Currently, you're using the string to XName conversion, which takes that string as just the local ID of an element, and that can't contain a colon.
You need to create an XName with the full namespace + local ID. Fortunately, LINQ makes that really easy:
XNamespace xlink = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
XElement userList = csClient.GetListXml(grpId, members);
foreach (var user in userList.Elements())
{
logdetails(user.Attribute(xlink + "title").Value);
}
Note that there's no need to call ToString() after Value - XAttribute.Value already returns a string.
Related
I can get the element innertext from expandoobject without any problem. I can't figure out how to get the attribute's value.
By doing Console.WriteLine(obj.Message.Body), I can get the expected string inside the body element.
private void TestXML()
{
string xmlString = #"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?><Message important=""yes"" recevied=""2019-2-12""><Body>Hi there fella!</Body></Message>";
XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xmlString);
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeXNode(doc);
dynamic obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ExpandoObject>(json);
Console.WriteLine(obj.Message);
}
I did a debug and and under obj.Message I can see 3 fields:
#important with value "yes"
#received with value "2019-2-12"
Body with value "Hi there fella!"
Is there a way to retrieve the first 2 fields' values with a # prefix? I have no idea how to deal with this # character on dynamic objects.
To deal with special characters, such as "#" in dynamic object, you must cast it to `
(IDictionary). And then you can get the recevied attribute as bellow:
var received = ((IDictionary<string, object>)obj.Message)["#recevied"];
I have the below XML and I've been trying to extract the FirstName, LastName and OtherName for a while now I'm running into all sort of problems.
<OmdCds xmlns="cds"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:cdsd="cds_dt"
xsi:schemaLocation="cds ontariomd_cds.xsd">
<PatientRecord>
<Demographics>
<Names>
<cdsd:LegalName namePurpose="L">
<cdsd:FirstName>
<cdsd:Part>SARAH</cdsd:Part>
<cdsd:PartType>GIV</cdsd:PartType>
<cdsd:PartQualifier>BR</cdsd:PartQualifier>
</cdsd:FirstName>
<cdsd:LastName>
<cdsd:Part>GOMEZ</cdsd:Part>
<cdsd:PartType>FAMC</cdsd:PartType>
<cdsd:PartQualifier>BR</cdsd:PartQualifier>
</cdsd:LastName>
<cdsd:OtherName>
<cdsd:Part>GABRIELA</cdsd:Part>
<cdsd:PartType>GIV</cdsd:PartType>
<cdsd:PartQualifier>BR</PartQualifier>
I currently trying to extract with the below c# code but still can't extract the above data. I'm getting a nullreferenceexception.
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(folder + "\\" + o.ToString());
XmlNamespaceManager namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("cdsd", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
XmlNode firstName = doc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("/PatientRecord/Demographics/Names/cdsd:LegalName/cdsd:FirstName/cdsd:Part", namespaceManager);
string fName = firstName.InnerText;
MessageBox.Show(fName);
I can see in the local watch item under doc.DocumentElement, all the InnerXML and InnerText. The InnerXML look something like this...
<PatientRecord xmlns=\"cds\"><Demographics><Names><cdsd:LegalName namePurpose=\"L\" xmlns:cdsd=\"cds_dt\"><cdsd:FirstName><cdsd:Part>SARAH</cdsd:Part><cdsd:PartType>GIV</cdsd:PartType><cdsd:PartQualifier>BR</cdsd:PartQualifier></cdsd:FirstName>
You have 3 namespace definitions in the document:
cds - as a default namespace
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance- with the xsi prefix
cds_dt - with the cdsd prefix
I am wondering that you don't get an error message, because cds and cds_dt are no URIs and namspaces need to be URIs.
If you try to understand an element name you need to replaces the prefix with the actual namespace.
<PatientRecord> reads as {cds}:PatientRecord
<cdsd:LegalName> reads as {cds_dt}:LegalName
Now in XPath 1.0 the same happens with registered namespaces. But XPath does not have a default namespace. So elements without one are not expanded with a default namespace.
You need to register namespace prefixes on the namespace manager. The prefix does not need to be the same as in the document.
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("cdsd", "cds_dt");
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("cds", "cds");
Now you can use the registered namespaces in XPath:
doc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode(
"cds:PatientRecord/cds:Demographics/cds:Names/cdsd:LegalName/cdsd:FirstName/cdsd:Part",
namespaceManager
);
If the first character of an XPath expression is a slash the expression is relative to the document, otherwise to the current context node. You call SelectSingleNode() on the doc.DocumentElement - the OmdCds element node. PatientRecord is a child node, so you can start with it or use . for the current context node.
PatientRecord, Demographics and Names are in the cds namespace. This is because of the default namespace declaration on the OmdCds element (xmlns="cds"). The others are in the cdsd namespace, not xsi. You'll have to add them and use them in the XPATH:
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("cdsd", "cdsd");
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("cds", "cds");
XmlNode firstName = doc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode(
"/cds:PatientRecord/cds:Demographics/cds:Names/cdsd:LegalName/cdsd:FirstName/cdsd:Part",
namespaceManager);
BTW, you're getting a NullReferenceException because you're making the false assumption that your query will always return a node. You are now seeing what happens when it does not return a node. Always check for null whenever it's possible that a query returns no value.
Instead XmlDocument class you can use Linq to XML, is easy. You need using the System.Xml.Linq namspace, for example:
XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load("path");
IEnumerable<XElement> nodes = (from p in xdoc.Descendants()
where p.Name.LocalName == "FirstName"
select p).Elements();
foreach (XElement nodeFirstName in nodes)
{
foreach (XElement parts in nodeFirstName.Elements())
{
string strExtracted = parts.Name.LocalName + " " + parts.Value;
}
}
The LocalName property is used beacuse elements have a prefix "cdsd"
Load function is already defined in xmlData class
public class XmlData
{
public void Load(XElement xDoc)
{
var id = xDoc.XPathSelectElements("//ID");
var listIds = xDoc.XPathSelectElements("/Lists//List/ListIDS/ListIDS");
}
}
I'm just calling the Load function from my end.
XmlData aXmlData = new XmlData();
string input, stringXML = "";
TextReader aTextReader = new StreamReader("D:\\test.xml");
while ((input = aTextReader.ReadLine()) != null)
{
stringXML += input;
}
XElement Content = XElement.Parse(stringXML);
aXmlData.Load(Content);
in load function,im getting both id and and listIds as null.
My test.xml contains
<SEARCH>
<ID>11242</ID>
<Lists>
<List CURRENT="true" AGGREGATEDCHANGED="false">
<ListIDS>
<ListID>100567</ListID>
<ListID>100564</ListID>
<ListID>100025</ListID>
<ListID>2</ListID>
<ListID>1</ListID>
</ListIDS>
</List>
</Lists>
</SEARCH>
EDIT: Your sample XML doesn't have an id element in the namespace with the nss alias. It would be <nss:id> in that case, or there'd be a default namespace set up. I've assumed for this answer that in reality the element you're looking for is in the namespace.
Your query is trying to find an element called id at the root level. To find all id elements, you need:
var tempId = xDoc.XPathSelectElements("//nss:id", ns);
... although personally I'd use:
XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(...);
XNamespace nss = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner";
// Or use FirstOrDefault(), or whatever...
XElement idElement = doc.Descendants(nss + "id").Single();
(I prefer using the query methods on LINQ to XML types instead of XPath... I find it easier to avoid silly syntax errors etc.)
Your sample code is also unclear as you're using xDoc which hasn't been declared... it helps to write complete examples, ideally including everything required to compile and run as a console app.
I am looking at the question 3 hours after it was submitted and 41 minutes after it was (last) edited.
There are no namespaces defined in the provided XML document.
var listIds = xDoc.XPathSelectElements("/Lists//List/ListIDS/ListIDS");
This XPath expression obviously doesn't select any node from the provided XML document, because the XML document doesn't have a top element named Lists (the name of the actual top element is SEARCH)
var id = xDoc.XPathSelectElements("//ID");
in load function,im getting both id and and listIds as null.
This statement is false, because //ID selects the only element named ID in the provided XML document, thus the value of the C# variable id is non-null. Probably you didn't test thoroughly after editing the XML document.
Most probably the original ID element belonged to some namespace. But now it is in "no namespace" and the XPath expression above does select it.
string xmldocument = "<response xmlns:nss=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner\"><action>test</action><id>1</id></response>";
XElement Content = XElement.Parse(xmldocument);
XPathNavigator navigator = Content.CreateNavigator();
XmlNamespaceManager ns = new XmlNamespaceManager(navigator.NameTable);
ns.AddNamespace("nss", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner");
var tempId = navigator.SelectSingleNode("/id");
The reason for the null value or system returned value is due to the following
var id = xDoc.XPathSelectElements("//ID");
XpathSElectElements is System.xml.linq.XElment which is linq queried date. It cannot be directly outputed as such.
To Get individual first match element
use XPathSelectElement("//ID");
You can check the number of occurrences using XPathSelectElements as
var count=xDoc.XPathSelectElements("//ID").count();
you can also query the linq statement as order by using specific conditions
Inorder to get node value from a list u can use this
foreach (XmlNode xNode in xDoc.SelectNodes("//ListIDS/ListID"))
{
Console.WriteLine(xNode.InnerText);
}
For Second list you havnt got the value since, the XPath for list items is not correct
I was working on a bunch of XMLs that all share an attribute that contains the string "name" in them. The following code selects the attribute with string "name" in it and assign a new value to it.
public void updateXmlFile(string strFileName)
{
try
{
//Load the Document
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(strFileName);
//Set the changed Value
string newValue = GetUniqueKey();
//Select all nodes in the XML then choose from them
//the first node that contain string "name" in it
XmlNodeList list = doc.SelectNodes("//#*");
XmlNode filteredNode = list.Cast<XmlNode>()
.First(item => item.Name.ToLower().Contains("name"));
//Assign the newValue to the value of the node
filteredNode.Value = newValue;
doc.Save(strFileName);
}
catch (XmlException xex) { Console.WriteLine(xex); }
}
Now a new XMLs were added that dosen't have the string "name" in them, so instead of modifying the attribute with string "name" in it I decided to simply modify the last attribute no matter what it was (not the first)
Can anybody tell me how to do that?
EDIT
Here is an example of my XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CO_CallSignLists Version="24" ModDttm="2010-09-13T06:45:38.873" ModUser="EUADEV\SARE100" ModuleOwner="EUADEVS06\SS2008" CreateDttm="2009-11-05T10:19:31.583" CreateUser="EUADEV\A003893">
<CoCallSignLists DataclassId="E3FC5E2D-FE84-492D-AD94-3ACCED870714" EntityId="E3FC5E2D-FE84-492D-AD94-3ACCED870714" MissionID="4CF71AB2-0D92-DE11-B5D1-000C46F3773D" BroadcastType="S" DeputyInSpecialList="1" SunSpots="1537634cb70c6d80">
<CoCallSigns EntityId="DEBF1DDB-3C92-DE11-A280-000C46F377C4" CmdID="C45F3EF1-1292-DE11-B5D1-000C46F3773D" ModuleID="6CB497F3-AD63-43F1-ACAE-2C5C3B1D7F61" ListType="HS" Name="Reda Sabassi" Broadcast="INTO" PhysicalAddress="37" IsGS="1" HCId="0" CommonGeoPos="1" GeoLat="0.0000000" GeoLong="0.0000000">
<CoRadios EntityId="E1BF1DDB-3C92-DE11-A280-000C46F377C4" RadioType="HF" />
</CoCallSigns>
</CoCallSignLists>
</CO_CallSignLists>
#Alex: You notice that the "SunSpots" attribute (last attribute in the first child element) is successfully changed. But now when I wanna load the XML back into the DB it gives me an error
Here is the modified code
public void updateXmlFile(string strFileName)
{
try
{
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(strFileName);
XAttribute l_attr_1 = (doc.Elements().First().Elements().First().Attributes().Last());
l_attr_1.Value = GetUniqueKey();
Console.WriteLine("Name: {0} Value:{1}", l_attr_1.Name, l_attr_1.Value);
doc.Save(strFileName);
}
catch (XmlException xex) { Console.WriteLine(xex); }
}
I was thinking of making an if statment which checks if the XML has an attribute that contains string "name" in it (since most of my XMLs has an attribute that contains name in them) if it does then change the attribute's value if not look for the last attribute and change it.. not the best solution but just throwing it out there
Then definitely use Linq to XML.
Example:
using System.Xml.Linq;
string xml = #"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>
<Commands Version=""439"" CreateUser=""Reda"">
<CmCommands DataclassId=""57067ca8-ef96-4d2e-a085-6bd7e8b24126"" OrderName = ""Tea"" Remark=""Black"">
<CmExecutions EntityId=""A9A5B0F2-6AB4-4619-9106-B0F85F86EE01"" Lock=""n"" />
</CmCommands>
</Commands>";
XDocument x = XDocument.Parse(xml);
Debug.Print(x.Elements().First().Elements().First().Attributes().Last().Value);
// Commands ^ CmCommands ^ Remark ^
That is, word for word, the last attribute of the first child of the first element.
You can also query for element/attribute names, like:
Debug.Print(x.Descendants(XName.Get("CmCommands", "")).First().Attribute(XName.Get("Remark", "")).Value);
And of course you can use all of the Linq goodness like Where, Select, Any, All etc.
Note: replace XDocument.Parse with XDocument.Load if appropriate etc.
I've not tested this but you should be able to do all of this in the XPath expression. Something like this:
//#*[contains(node-name(.), 'name')][last()]
This will return only the last attribute with the string name anywhere in its name.
If you only want the last attribute, irrespective of it's name, use this:
//#*[last()]
Look at class XmlAttributeCollection. You can get this collection by reading property Attributes of XmlNode. Just get the last by index.
Instead of .First(), use an extension method like this:
public static T LastOrDefault<T>(this IEnumerable<T> list)
{
T val = null;
foreach(T item in list)
{
val = item;
}
return val;
}
I have the following method to parse XMLElements:
DisplayMessages(XElement root)
{
var items = root.Descendants("Item");
foreach (var item in items)
{
var name = item.Element("Name");
....
}
}
In debug mode, I can see the root as XML like this:
<ItemInfoList>
<ItemInfo>
<Item>
<a:Name>item 1</a:Name>
...
<Item>
...
and var name is null (I expect to get "item 1"). I tried to use "a:Name" but it caused exception("character : cannot be used in name"). I am not sure if I have to set namespace in root XElelement or not. All the xml node under root should be in the same namespace.
I am new to XElement. In my codes, item.Element("Name") will get its children node "Name"'s value value, is that right?
You need to use element names that include namespace. Try this:
static void DisplayMessages(XElement root)
{
var items = root.Descendants(root.GetDefaultNamespace() + "Item");
foreach (var item in items)
{
var name = item.Element(item.GetNamespaceOfPrefix("a") + "Name");
Console.WriteLine(name.Value);
}
}
Note that operator + is overloaded for XNamespace class in order to make code shorter: XNamespace.Addition Operator.
You do need to define the "a" namespace in the root element:
<Root a:xmlns="http:///someuri.com">
...
</Root>
Then you can select an element in a non-default namespace using this syntax in LINQ to XML:
XNamespace a = "http:///someuri.com"; // must match declaration in document
...
var name = item.Element(a + "Name");
EDIT:
To retrieve the default namespace:
XNamespace defaultNamespace = document.Root.GetDefaultNamespace();
// XNamespace.None is returned when default namespace is not explicitly declared
To find other namespace declarations:
var declarations = root.Attributes().Where(a => a.IsNamespaceDeclaration);
Note that namespaces can be declared on any element though so you would need to recursively search all elements in a document to find all namespace declarations. In practice though this is generally done in the root element, if you can control how the XML is generated then that won't be an issue.
You need to create XNames that have a non-null Namespace. To do so, you have to create an XNamespace, and add the element name, see Creating an XName in a Namespace.
If you work with XML data that contains namespaces, you need to declare these namespaces. (That's a general observation I made, even though it seems to make it difficult to "just have a look" on data you don't know).
You need to declare an XNamespace for your XElements, as in these MSDN samples: Element(), XName