XML

anthonym · December 12th, 2011, 07:51 AM

Guys, don't know if this is athe right palce to ask but here it goes.
I have an xml string in a c# programm and want to get a specific element value (which is about five children down from top node). However, there are lots of namespaces within the xml, too.
see below

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=\"http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope\" xmlns:xs=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">
<SOAP-ENV:Header><ns:FXTradeVersion ns0:mustUnderstand=\"1 xsi:type=\"xs:string\"

My code below:

Code:

           XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
            xml.LoadXml(fpml);
            XmlNodeList xnList = xml.SelectNodes("SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/fpml:TradeAffirmation/fpml:trade/fpml:tradeHeader/fpml:partyTradeIdentifier");

But I get the following exception thrown
Namespace Manager or XsltContext needed. This query has a prefix, variable, or user-defined function.

thanks

Martin Honnen · December 12th, 2011, 08:18 AM

This forum is about XSLT so your question is not on topic here. Try the documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4bektfx9.aspx, it has an example on using SelectNodes with an XmlNamespaceManager, if that does not help then post in http://p2p.wrox.com/xml-91/ or a .NET forum.