I'm dealing to access an specific node from a XML Document. I realized that this one as a base namespace. Here is the example.
I'm interested to get the value of the node d:MediaUrl from all descendents node (entry). And I haven't accomplished that.
When I debug the variable iterator 'i', I can see that the XML includes the default namespace again, something like:
<entry xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com.ado/..."
And also I have to include the another namespace called 'd'.
What can I do to access to that particular nodes?
This is what I have.
var doc = XDocument.Parse(result);
string BASE_NS = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
string d = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
var query = from i in doc.Descendants(XName.Get("entry", BASE_NS))
select new Image()
{
Url = i.Element(XName.Get("MediaUrl", BASE_NS)).Value
};
var results = query.ToList();
I would suggest using XNamespace
rather than XName
(personal preference, mainly - as that's how I've always dealt with namespaces in LINQ to XML). To me it's less effort to set up the namespaces in advance and then use Element(NS + "element name") than to use
XName.Get(though using
XName.Get` is perfectly fine if that's what you want to do.
If you want to get a all the "MediaUrl" elements for each entry, then I'd do something like this:
XNamespace d = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
var query = (from i in doc.Descendants(d + "MediaUrl")
select new Image()
{
Url = i.Value
}).ToList();
If you want to get only one of them, then you need to do something a little different, depending on which one you wanted to get.
For the properties MediaUrl:
XNamespace d = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
XNamespace m = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata";
var query = (from i in doc.Descendants(m + "properties")
select new Image()
{
Url = i.Element(d + "MediaUrl").Value
}).ToList();
For the Thumbnail MediaUrl:
XNamespace d = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
var query = (from i in doc.Descendants(d + "Thumbnail")
select new Image()
{
Url = i.Element(d + "MediaUrl").Value
}).ToList();
The key here is to use the namespace in conjunction with the element name in order to retrieve it.
var query = from i in doc.Descendants("{full namespace for prefix d}MediaUrl")
select new Image()
{
Url = i.Value
};