I need to be able to create an XML Document that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<rootprefix:rootname
noPrefix="attribute with no prefix"
firstprefix:attrOne="first atrribute"
secondprefix:attrTwo="second atrribute with different prefix">
...other elements...
</rootprefix:rootname>
Here's my code:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
XmlDeclaration declaration = doc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", "yes");
doc.AppendChild(declaration);
XmlElement root = doc.CreateElement("rootprefix:rootname", nameSpaceURL);
root.SetAttribute("schemaVersion", "1.0");
root.SetAttribute("firstprefix:attrOne", "first attribute");
root.SetAttribute("secondprefix:attrTwo", "second attribute with different prefix");
doc.AppendChild(root);
Unfortunately, what I'm getting for the second attribute with the second prefix is no prefix at all. It's just "attrTwo"--like the schemaVersion attribute.
So, is there a way to have different prefixes for attributes in the root element in C#?
When using prefixes in XML, a namespace for the prefix must be defined. The namespace can be defined by an xmlns attribute in the start tag of an element. The namespace declaration has the following syntax. xmlns:prefix="URI".
When you use multiple namespaces in an XML document, you can define one namespace as the default namespace to create a cleaner looking document. The default namespace is declared in the root element and applies to all unqualified elements in the document. Default namespaces apply to elements only, not to attributes.
An XML namespace is a collection of names that can be used as element or attribute names in an XML document. The namespace qualifies element names uniquely on the Web in order to avoid conflicts between elements with the same name.
You can change the default namespace within a particular element by adding an xmlns attribute to the element. Example 4-4 is an XML document that initially sets the default namespace to http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml for all the XHTML elements.
This is just a guide for you. May be you can do:
NameTable nt = new NameTable();
nt.Add("key");
XmlNamespaceManager ns = new XmlNamespaceManager(nt);
ns.AddNamespace("firstprefix", "fp");
ns.AddNamespace("secondprefix", "sp");
root.SetAttribute("attrOne", ns.LookupPrefix("fp"), "first attribute");
root.SetAttribute("attrTwo", ns.LookupPrefix("sp"), "second attribute with different prefix");
This will result in:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<rootprefix:rootname schemaVersion="1.0" d1p1:attrOne="first attribute" d1p2:attrTwo="second attribute with different prefix" xmlns:d1p2="secondprefix" xmlns:d1p1="firstprefix" xmlns:rootprefix="ns" />
Hope this will be of any help!
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