I'm loading a string into an XML document that contains the following structure:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="clsWorker.cs" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
Then I'm loading all into an XmlDocument
:
XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
xmldoc.LoadXml(Xml);
Then the following problem occurs:
XmlNode Node = xmldoc.SelectSingleNode("//Compile"); // returns null
When I remove the xmlns
attribute from the root element (Project
), it works fine.
How do I get SelectSingleNode
to return the relevant element?
You should use an XmlNamespaceManager in your call to SelectSingleNode():
XmlNamespaceManager ns = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmldoc.NameTable);
ns.AddNamespace("msbld", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003");
XmlNode node = xmldoc.SelectSingleNode("//msbld:Compile", ns);