"Alexander Gnauck" <gnauck@ag-software.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> i have problems with the Namespaces and the .Net XML Parser
> My XML looks like this:
>
> <query xmlns="jabber:iq:roster">
> <item jid="srlee@localhost" name="srlee"
> subscription="both"><group>contacts</group></item>
> <item jid="tlee@localhost" name="Troy"
> subscription="both"><group>contacts</group></item>
> <item jid="bglee@localhost" name="Barry"
> subscription="both"><group>contacts</group></item>
> <item jid="dslee@localhost" name="Debbie"
> subscription="both"><group>contacts</group></item>
> </query>
>
> Now i select nodes with SelectNodes. Sometimes i change or add some
> attributes to the selected node. The XML is located in a normal
> XmlDocument Object (doc).
>
> XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);
> nsmgr.AddNamespace("foo", "jabber:iq:roster" );
> XmlNode nItem = doc.SelectSingleNode(
> "//foo:item[@jid='srlee@localhost']", nsmgr );
>
> Now when i look at the OuterXml of the selected node i get the
> following:
>
> <item jid="srlee@localhost" name="srlee" subscription="both"
> xmlns="jabber:iq:roster"><group
> xmlns="jabber:iq:roster">contacts</group></item>
>
> The parser adds the Namespace to every tag. Thats very very bad for my
> applciation. I wanna have the raw XM here. Is there a way to get this
> node without the added namespaces? In the old COM MSXML 2-4 parsers i
> never had this problems. Is there a way to tell the parser to handle the
> namespaces like normal attribbutes? Or to ignore them? They make me only
> trouble. Has anybody a idea or similar problems ?
>
> Thanx Alex
>
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> Alexander Gnauck
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>
>

> The namespace references are not "added". They are a vital part of the
> infoset of the document from which you select. They are a part a of the
> nodes you select, without them they would be different elements.
>
> Now what exactly do you want? Do you really want elements that do no belong
> to any namespace or do you not want the namespace repeated on every element
> you selected?

> If you want to strip the namespace definitions after you selected the nodes,
> you have two options. First, you can create a new document, iterate over the
> nodes you selected and and add nodes to the new document with the same names
> and content as the ones you selected, but without the namespaces. Second,
> you can do this via XSLT ins tead of selecting the nodes and iterating over
> the results. Once you went through this step then the nodes in the newly
> created doc do not belong to any namespace.

> If you just don't want the namespace definition on every node then you need
> have parent node that contains the selected nodes. The parent can declare
> the namespace as the default namespace or define a prefix that will be used
> to indicate the namespace in which the elements are defined.
>
> Did this help clear thing up? If you could post what you are actually trying
> to accomplish and why you don't want the namespace definitions maybe we
> could give more detailed advice.

> If you just don't want the namespace definition on every node then you need
> have parent node that contains the selected nodes. The parent can declare
> the namespace as the default namespace or define a prefix that will be used
> to indicate the namespace in which the elements are defined.