>I am having trouble writing an XPath query that deals with namespaces. I've
>see the documentation that says that I have to use a XmlNamespaceManager and
>qualify my queries such that they match up with the definitions added to the
>XmlNamespacemanager, but I want to write a query that pulls all of the
>elements from my document that would otherwise match the
>expression--regardless of their namespace. Does anyone know how to do this?

"Bjoern Hoehrmann" <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> wrote in message
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> * Wells Caughey wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:
> >I am having trouble writing an XPath query that deals with namespaces.
I've
> >see the documentation that says that I have to use a XmlNamespaceManager
and
> >qualify my queries such that they match up with the definitions added to
the
> >XmlNamespacemanager, but I want to write a query that pulls all of the
> >elements from my document that would otherwise match the
> >expression--regardless of their namespace. Does anyone know how to do
this?
>
> *[local-name() = "name"]
>
> Selects all element children of the context node with a local-name
> "name" regardless of their namespace.