XPathNavigation and Namespaces. -- dotnet xml

Hollywood
7/19/2004 1:18:05 PM

I have the following code that is attempting to read nodes from an xml
file...

XmlDocument xpdStatus = new XmlDocument();
xpdStatus.Load("status.xml");
XPathNavigator xpnStatus = xpdStatus.CreateNavigator();

XPathNodeIterator xpniStatus = xpnStatus.Select("descendant::Status");
while (xpniStatus.MoveNext())
{
Console.WriteLine("Book title: {0}", xpniStatus.Current.Value);
XmlNode node = ((xpniStatus.Current) as IHasXmlNode).GetNode();
Console.WriteLine("Status: {0}", node.Value);
}

The code works fine until I attempt to add namespaces, with prefixes, into
the XML document, then the xpnStatus.Select never returns the Status nodes.
I've also tried xpnStatus.Select("descendant::Status",
"http:///www.mydomain.net/mynamespace") and xpnStatus.Select("Status",
"http:///www.mydomain.net/mynamespace") to no avail.

Any thoughts?

Here is a snipet of the XML...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<document xmlns:MNS="http:///www.mydomain.net/mynamespace")>
<MNS:Status guid="8f8ecffd-a692-493c-91d9-0074b74ca56b" damage="false"
reset="false" save="true" show="true">
<MNS:Name>
<MNS:Name>Status1</MNS:Name>
<MNS:Alias>Bl</MNS:Alias>
</MNS:Name>
<MNS:Description><![CDATA[Random description.]]></MNS:Description>
</MNS:Status>
<MNS:Status guid="b7273a52-d346-472c-8506-166f94ca896e" damage="false"
reset="true" save="true" show="false">
<MNS:Name>
<MNS:Name>Status2</MNS:Name>
<MNS:Alias>Cp</MNS:Alias>
</MNS:Name>
<MNS:Description><![CDATA[]]></SRD:Description>
</SRD:Status>
</document>

Chris Lovett
7/19/2004 7:53:06 PM

You have to populate an XmlNamespaceManager and pass it to the navigator
Select method.

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