I've got an XML document with a default namespace. I'm using a XPathNavigator to select a set of nodes using Xpath as follows:
XmlElement myXML = ...;
XPathNavigator navigator = myXML.CreateNavigator();
XPathNodeIterator result = navigator.Select("/outerelement/innerelement");
I am not getting any results back: I'm assuming this is because I am not specifying the namespace. How can I include the namespace in my select?
You might want to try an XPath Visualizer tool to help you through.
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You can use XPath statement without using XmlNamespaceManager like this:
...
navigator.Select("//*[ local-name() = 'innerelement' and namespace-uri() = '' ]")
...
That is a simple way of selecting element within XML with default namespace definied.
The point is to use:
namespace-uri() = ''
which will found element with default namespace without using prefixes.