I want to add an XmlElement to my XmlDocument. This element will also have an attribute. So I want to add something like the following to an existing xml document.
<MyNode attr="1">some value</MyNode>
Whenever I try to do this i end up with something like:
<MyNode p6:attr="1" xmlns:p6="http://www.mycom
How do I get rid of the p6 and the xmlns:p6 namespace portion of this. I'm creating the node by doing:
XmlElement newElem= document.CreateElement("My
XmlAttribute newAttr = document.CreateAttribute(a
newAttr.Value = "1";
newElem.SetAttribute(newAt
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Perhaps it has something to do with the schema, but I did solve it with the code I possted below. When i created the node and attribute this way, I didn't get the namespacing on the attribute. But I would still like to know what was causing the original problem. This is the header of my XML document. Could this be culprit for my original problem?
<Config xmlns="http://www.mycompan
//----------
// this code works -- no namespace references are added to my attribute
//----------
// Create the new node
XmlNode n = document.CreateNode(XmlNod
n.InnerText = "MyNode";
// create it's attribute
XmlNode a = document.CreateNode(XmlNod
a.Value = "true";
// append the attribute.
XmlElement node = (XmlElement)n;
node.Attributes.Append((Xm
parentNode.AppendChild(nod
Are you creating a new document or adding elements to an existing one? If you are adding to an existing document that has namespaces you have to define the namespace of each element. If you specify the same namespace as the containing element XmlDocument is smart enough to remove the xmlns attribute, but you have to match the containging document's namespace EXACTLY. Case counts. Assuming you want to add a child to the Config element you gave above:
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by: photowhizPosted on 2008-08-26 at 10:05:21ID: 22316933
You're adding the namespace with the document.DocumentElement.N