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Adding customXML part to Word

I am trying to add a custom XML part to Word. What I am doing is I have generated an XML model that binds all my data in the Word file. This is how I am trying to fill it, but nothing is being added:
public void FeedCustomXmlParts(MyModel model, string xmlns)
{
var ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyModel), xmlns);
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
ser.Serialize(ms, model);
CustomXmlPart partLabel = GetCustomXmlPart(_wordDoc.MainDocumentPart, xmlns);
ms.Position = 0;
partLabel.FeedData(ms);
ms.Flush();
}
}
private static CustomXmlPart GetCustomXmlPart(MainDocumentPart mainDocumentPart, string targetNs)
{
if (mainDocumentPart == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(mainDocumentPart));
}
return (from part in mainDocumentPart.CustomXmlParts
let xElement = part.GetXDocument().Root
where xElement != null
let ns = xElement.GetDefaultNamespace()
where ns == targetNs
select part).FirstOrDefault();
}
What am I doing wrong?

According to your description, I understand that you want to add custom XML parts to the word.
The following code example adds a custom XML part to a specified document.
private void AddCustomXmlPartToActiveDocument(Word.Document document)
{
string xmlString =
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>" +
"<employees xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/vsto/samples\">" +
"<employee>" +
"<name>Karina Leal</name>" +
"<hireDate>1999-04-01</hireDate>" +
"<title>Manager</title>" +
"</employee>" +
"</employees>";
Office.CustomXMLPart employeeXMLPart = document.CustomXMLParts.Add(xmlString, missing);
}
For more information, please refer to:To add a custom XML part to a Word document
Hope that helps!

Unable to get value from Descendants() or Element() using XML

I can't seem to get a value from child nodes of an xml file. I feel like I have tried everything. All I want is to get the value of latitude and longitude of the location child node in the xml file. What am I doing wrong? Maybe I should try JSON instead of XML.
private void RequestCompleted(IAsyncResult result)
{
var request = (HttpWebRequest)result.AsyncState;
var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.EndGetResponse(result);
StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
try
{
XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(stream);
XElement root = xdoc.Root;
XNamespace ns = xdoc.Root.Name.Namespace;
List<XElement> results = xdoc.Descendants(ns + "GeocodeResponse").Descendants(ns + "result").ToList();
List<XElement> locationElement = results.Descendants(ns + "geometry").Descendants(ns + "location").ToList();
List<XElement> lat = locationElement.Descendants(ns + "lat").ToList();
List<XElement> lng = locationElement.Descendants(ns + "lng").ToList();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Error" + ex.Message)
}
}
xml
<GeocodeResponse>
<status>OK</status>
<result>
<type>street_address</type>
<formatted_address>134 Gearger Circle, Lexington, KY, USA</formatted_address>
<geometry>
<location>
<lat>36.31228546</lat>
<lng>-91.4444399</lng>
</location>
<location_type>ROOFTOP</location_type>
</geometry>
<place_id>ChIJtwDV05mW-IgRyJKZ7fjmYVc</place_id>
</result>
</GeocodeResponse>
Also here is a debug value that shows a count of zero. not sure what that means. I just need the value of lat and lng.

If I understand your question correctly you are looking for the list of all the lat and lng in the XML Document.
XDocument xdc = XDocument.Load(stream);
var AllLats = xdc.Descendants("lat");
var AllLong = xdc.Descendants("lng");
You wont need to drill down to the hierarchy to get the XML Nodes value with Descendants
Another part is ns that is your namespace has to be included for the XML which looks like
<SOmeNS:address_component>
not for the elements which does have name without :
attaching the screenshot to see if you want this output.

Your code works correctly, make sure your xml loaded in the line using debugger.
XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(stream);
And check namespace, when executing your code i got empty string in ns or try removing the ns from your code.
XNamespace ns = xdoc.Root.Name.Namespace;
To get the lat and long use below code.
List<XElement> lat = locationElement.Descendants(ns + "lat").ToList();
List<XElement> lng = locationElement.Descendants(ns + "lng").ToList();
var latitudeval = lat[0].value;
var longitudeval = lng[0].value;

Get the element you are interested in by name. Then get the first and last child node since the first child is lat and the last child is long.
var sw = doc.Descendants("location");
var lat = sw.Descendants().First();
var lng = sw.Descendants().Last();

//XNamespace ns = xdoc.Root.Name.Namespace;
XNamespace ns = xdoc.GetDefaultNamespace();

The only way I was able to fix my issue was to send a request for JSON instead of XML. Then using Regex I was able to remove the <string> portion of the response. This worked perfectly and JSON is easier to work with in my opinion anyways.
private void RequestCompleted(IAsyncResult result)
{
var request = (HttpWebRequest)result.AsyncState;
var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.EndGetResponse(result);
JObject jdoc = null;
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
try
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
string text = reader.ReadToEnd();
Regex rgx = new Regex("<.*\\>");
string newResult = rgx.Replace(text, "");
JObject json = JObject.Parse(newResult);
jdoc = json;
JArray results = (JArray)json["results"];
if (results.Count == 0)
{
}
else
{
foreach(JObject obj in results)
{
string formattedAddress = (string)obj["formatted_address"];
double lat = (double)obj["geometry"]["location"]["lat"];
double lng = (double)obj["geometry"]["location"]["lng"];
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Error" + ex.Message);
}
}

xdocument re writing xml document [duplicate]

I have a method which load XML to a XDocument and modify its elements then save.
But when I reload it. I got this error :
Unexpected XML declaration. The XML declaration must be the first node in the document, and no white space characters are allowed to appear before it.
I checking the XML and see that the XDocument didn't save the changed but create a duplicate and save.
It save the old one and the new one like this example xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Ungdungs>
<Ungdung>
<Name>HERE City Lens</Name>
<Id>b0a0ac22-cf9e-45ba-8120-815450e2fd71</Id>
<Path>/Icon/herecitylens.png</Path>
<Version>Unknown</Version>
<Category>HERE</Category>
<Date>Uknown</Date>
</Ungdung>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Ungdungs>
<Ungdung>
<Name>HERE City Lens</Name>
<Id>b0a0ac22-cf9e-45ba-8120-815450e2fd71</Id>
<Path>/Icon/herecitylens.png</Path>
<Version>1.0.0.0</Version>
<Category>HERE</Category>
<Date>Uknown</Date>
</Ungdung>
Here the code I used to modify and save XML :
using (Stream stream = storage.OpenFile("APPSDATA.xml", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
//var xdoc = XDocument.Load("APPSDATA.xml");
var xdoc = XDocument.Load(stream, LoadOptions.None);
var listapp = from c in xdoc.Descendants("Ungdung") select c;
foreach (XElement app in listapp)
{
var xElement = app.Element("Name");
if (xElement != null)
progressIndicator.Text = "Checking " + xElement.Value + "...";
var element = app.Element("Id");
if (element != null)
{
var appId = element.Value;
var appVersion = await GetAppsVersion(appId);
app.Element("Version").Value = appVersion.ToString();
}
}
xdoc.Save(stream);
}
How can I solve this problem ?

Looks like you're appending modified document at the end of current file content. That's why you can't parse it later again.
I would split read and write parts into different using statements:
XDocument xdoc;
using (Stream stream = storage.OpenFile("APPSDATA.xml", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
xdoc = XDocument.Load(stream, LoadOptions.None);
}
var listapp = from c in xdoc.Descendants("Ungdung") select c;
foreach (XElement app in listapp)
{
var xElement = app.Element("Name");
if (xElement != null)
progressIndicator.Text = "Checking " + xElement.Value + "...";
var element = app.Element("Id");
if (element != null)
{
var appId = element.Value;
var appVersion = await GetAppsVersion(appId);
app.Element("Version").Value = appVersion.ToString();
}
}
using (Stream stream = storage.OpenFile("APPSDATA.xml", FileMode.Truncate, FileAccess.Write))
{
xdoc.Save(stream);
}
Setting FileMode.Truncate on second using statement will clear previous file content, what should fix your problem.

How keep carriage return from parsing XML

I am looking on Internet how keep the carriage return from XML data but I could not find the answer, so I'm here :)
The objective is to write in a file the content of a XML data. So, if the value of the node contains some "\r\n" data, the soft need to write them in file in order to create new line, but it doesn't write, even with space:preserve.
Here is my test class:
XElement xRootNode = new XElement("DOCS");
XElement xData = null;
//XNamespace ns = XNamespace.Xml;
//XAttribute spacePreserve = new XAttribute(ns+"space", "preserve");
//xRootNode.Add(spacePreserve);
xData = new XElement("DOC");
xData.Add(new XAttribute("FILENAME", "c:\\titi\\prout.txt"));
xData.Add(new XAttribute("MODE", "APPEND"));
xData.Add("Hi my name is Baptiste\r\nI'm a lazy boy");
xRootNode.Add(xData);
bool result = Tools.writeToFile(xRootNode.ToString());
And here is my process class:
try
{
XElement xRootNode = XElement.Parse(xmlInputFiles);
String filename = xRootNode.Element(xNodeDoc).Attribute(xAttributeFilename).Value.ToString();
Boolean mode = false;
try
{
mode = xRootNode.Element(xNodeDoc).Attribute(xWriteMode).Value.ToString().ToUpper().Equals(xWriteModeAppend);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
mode = false;
}
String value = xRootNode.Element(xNodeDoc).Value;
StreamWriter destFile = new StreamWriter(filename, mode, System.Text.Encoding.Unicode);
destFile.Write(value);
destFile.Close();
return true;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return false;
}
Does anybody have an idea?

If you want to preserve cr lf in element or attribute content when saving a XDocument or XElement you can do that by using certain XmlWriterSettings, namely NewLineHandling to Entitize:
string fileName = "XmlOuputTest1.xml";
string attValue = "Line1.\r\nLine2.";
string elementValue = "Line1.\r\nLine2.\r\nLine3.";
XmlWriterSettings xws = new XmlWriterSettings();
xws.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Entitize;
XDocument doc = new XDocument(new XElement("root",
new XAttribute("test", attValue),
elementValue));
using (XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(fileName, xws))
{
doc.Save(xw);
}
doc = XDocument.Load(fileName);
Console.WriteLine("att value: {0}; element value: {1}.",
attValue == doc.Root.Attribute("test").Value,
elementValue == doc.Root.Value);
In that example the value are preserved in the round trip of saving and loading as the output of the sample is "att value: True; element value: True."

Heres a useful link I found for parsing an Xml string with carraige returns, line feeds in it.
howto-correctly-parse-using-xelementparse-for-strings-that-contain-newline-character-in
It may help those who are parsing an Xml string.
For those who can't be bothered to click it says use an XmlTextReader instead
XmlTextReader xtr = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(xml));
XElement items = XElement.Load(xtr);
foreach (string desc in items.Elements("Item").Select(i => (string)i.Attribute("Description")))
{
Console.WriteLine("|{0}|", desc);
}

Using C# and XDocument/XElement to parse a Soap Response

Here is a sample soap response from my SuperDuperService:
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<MyResponse xmlns="http://mycrazyservice.com/SuperDuperService">
<Result>32347</Result>
</MyResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
For some reason when I try to grab the Descendant or Element of "Result" I get null. Does it have something to do with the Namespace? Can someone provide a solution to retrieve Result from this?

You might want to try something like this:
string myNamespace= "http://mycrazyservice.com/SuperDuperService";
var results = from result in yourXml.Descendants(XName.Get("MyResponse", myNamespace))
select result.Element("Result").value
Don't have VS on this laptop so I can't double check my code, but it should point you in the right direction using LINQ to SQL.

to extend Justin's answer with tested code with a return that excpects a boolean and that the response and result start with the method name (BTW - a surprise is even thought the XML element does not show the NS it requires it when parsing):
private string ParseXml(string sXml, string sNs, string sMethod, out bool br)
{
br = false;
string sr = "";
try
{
XDocument xd = XDocument.Parse(sXml);
if (xd.Root != null)
{
XNamespace xmlns = sNs;
var results = from result in xd.Descendants(xmlns + sMethod + "Response")
let xElement = result.Element(xmlns + sMethod + "Result")
where xElement != null
select xElement.Value;
foreach (var item in results)
sr = item;
br = (sr.Equals("true"));
return sr;
}
return "Invalid XML " + Environment.NewLine + sXml;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return "Invalid XML " + Environment.NewLine + ex.Message + Environment.NewLine + sXml;
}
}

Maybe like this:
IEnumerable<XElement> list = doc.Document.Descendants("Result");
if (list.Count() > 0)
{
// do stuff
}

You're searching in the right direction, it definitely has to do with the namespace.
The code below returns the first element found for the combination of namespace and element name.
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(#"c:\temp\file.xml");
XNamespace ns = #"http://mycrazyservice.com/SuperDuperService";
XElement el = doc.Elements().DescendantsAndSelf().FirstOrDefault( e => e.Name == ns + "Result");

You can try with this.
Regex regex = new Regex("<Result>(.*)</Result>");
var v = regex.Match(yourResponse);
string s = v.Groups[1].ToString();