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Search XDocument using LINQ without knowing the namespace

Asked 2010-04-09T21:09:47.710
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Is there a way to search an XDocument without knowing the namespace? I have a process that logs all SOAP requests and encrypts the sensitive data. I want to find any elements based on name. Something like, give me all elements where the name is CreditCard. I don't care what the namespace is.

My problem seems to be with LINQ and requiring a xml namespace.

I have other processes that retrieve values from XML, but I know the namespace for these other process.

XDocument xDocument = XDocument.Load(@"C:\temp\Packet.xml");
XNamespace xNamespace = "http://CompanyName.AppName.Service.Contracts";

var elements = xDocument.Root
                        .DescendantsAndSelf()
                        .Elements()
                        .Where(d => d.Name == xNamespace + "CreditCardNumber");

I really want to have the ability to search xml without knowing about namespaces, something like this:

XDocument xDocument = XDocument.Load(@"C:\temp\Packet.xml");
var elements = xDocument.Root
                        .DescendantsAndSelf()
                        .Elements()
                        .Where(d => d.Name == "CreditCardNumber")

This will not work because I don't know the namespace beforehand at compile time.

How can this be done?

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <Request xmlns="http://CompanyName.AppName.Service.ContractA">
        <Person>
            <CreditCardNumber>83838</CreditCardNumber>
            <FirstName>Tom</FirstName>
            <LastName>Jackson</LastName>
        </Person>
        <Person>
            <CreditCardNumber>789875</CreditCardNumber>
            <FirstName>Chris</FirstName>
            <LastName>
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Just use the Descendents method:

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(filename);
String[] creditCards = (from creditCardNode in doc.Root.Descendents("CreditCardNumber")
                        select creditCardNode.Value).ToArray<string>();
answered 2010-04-09T21:33:38.390

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