XML Soap Get Element From Xelement - c#

the xml that i get via a response stream:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<generateSSOResponse xmlns="http://url.com">
<generateSSOReturn>2DKtjZNq58THggh42lNsGvgGTjF8RSBA</generateSSOReturn>
</generateSSOResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
The code is use to try and get the "generateSSOResponse" token value.
var xmlDoc = XElement.Parse(s);
var ssoToken = xmlDoc.XPathSelectElement("/soapenv:Envelope[#xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"]/soapenv:Body/generateSSOResponse[#xmlns=\"http://ws.configureone.com\"]/generateSSOReturn");
Error: Namespace Manager or XsltContext needed. This query has a
prefix, variable, or user-defined function.
Saying i need a namespace manager? i though that's when dealing with XMLdoc not xElement? Whats the solution here?
EDIT: variable "s" is the response stream code as :
using (var mem = new MemoryStream())
{
rstream.CopyTo(mem);
var b = mem.ToArray();
var s = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(b);

Honestly, it'd be far simpler to use LINQ to XML as it was intended:
XNamespace ns = "http://url.com";
var token = (string)doc.Descendants(ns + "generateSSOReturn").Single();
See this fiddle for a working example. If you did want to use XPath then yes, you would need a namespace manager to allow the XPath navigator to resolve all the prefixes in your expression.
As an aside, you could also parse your XML direct from the stream:
var doc = XDocument.Load(rstream);

Ok so Charles Mager gave an answer using XMLtoLINQ as I was trying to use Xelement. However it turns out the ERP the code is being embedded into doesn't support linq (bummer).
So here's the solution i got working without XMLtoLINQ:
XmlDocument mydoc = new XmlDocument();
XmlNamespaceManager manager = new XmlNamespaceManager(mydoc.NameTable);
manager.AddNamespace("soapenv", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
manager.AddNamespace("xsd", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
manager.AddNamespace("xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
manager.AddNamespace("rsp","http://url.com");
mydoc.LoadXml(s);
var mytoken = mydoc.SelectSingleNode("//rsp:generateSSOReturn", manager);
Hope this helps anyone else who is in the same predicament as I was.

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XElement.Load() and "undeclared prefix" exception

I'm trying to load xml file using Xelement.Load() method and in case of some files, I get "ditaarch" is an undeclared prefix exception. The content of such troublesome xml's are similar to this simplified version:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<concept ditaarch:DITAArchVersion="1.3">
<title>Test Title</title>
<menucascade>
<uicontrol>text</uicontrol>
<uicontrol/>
</menucascade>
</concept>
I've tried to follow suggestions to manually add or ignore "ditaarch" namespace using xml namespace manager:
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(#"C:\test\example.xml"))
{
NameTable nameTable = new NameTable();
XmlNamespaceManager nameSpaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(nameTable);
nameSpaceManager.AddNamespace("ditaarch", "");
XmlParserContext parserContext = new XmlParserContext(null, nameSpaceManager, null, XmlSpace.None);
XElement elem = XElement.Load(reader);
}
But it leads to same exception as before. Most probably the solution is trivial but I just can't see it :(
If anyone would be able to point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful.
The presented markup is not namespace well-formed XML so I don't think XElement or XDocument is an option as it doesn't support colons in names. You can parse it with a legacy new XmlTextReader("foo.xml") { Namespaces = false } however.
And you could use XmlDocument instead of XDocument or XElement and check for any empty elements with e.g.
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
using (XmlReader xr = new XmlTextReader("example.xml") { Namespaces = false })
{
doc.Load(xr);
}
Console.WriteLine("Number of empty elements: {0}", doc.SelectNodes("//*[not(*)][not(normalize-space())]").Count);

Parsing wrongly formatted XML-SOAP with C#

I have malformed XML (SOAP) file which I need to parse. The issue is that XML doesn't have proper header tags.
I've tried to parse file with XDocument and XmlDocument but neither has worked. XML starts from the line 30, so maybe there is some way to skip those lines before file is read by XML parser?
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:eb="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/schema/msg-header-2_0.xsd">
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Finvoice.xsl"?>
<GGVersion="2.01" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="a.xsd">
XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
XmlReader r = XmlReader.Create(file.FullName, settings);
XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
xDoc.PreserveWhitespace = true;
xDoc.LoadXml("<xml/>");
xDoc.DocumentElement.CreateNavigator().AppendChild(r);
XmlNamespaceManager manager = new XmlNamespaceManager(xDoc.NameTable);
Once trying to parse I get: Unexpected xml declaration. The xml declaration must be the first node in the document ....
If I understand you correctly, then the data you are looking for starts after the SOAP envelope. There is no garbage/unnessescary contents after the data you are looking for.
The SOAP header does not start with the XML declaration (<?xml version=, etc).
Looking for the start of the document
A simple solution is to find the start of the XML document (the data you are looking for), and chop away everything before that.
var startOfRealDocumentMarker = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"";
var startIndex = dirtyXmlString.IndexOf(startOfRealDocumentMarker);
if(startIndex == -1) {
throw new Exception("Start of XML not found. Now what?");
}
var cleanXmlString = dirtyXmlString.Substring(startIndex);
If the SOAP header also has an XML declaration, you could look for the end-tag of the SOAP envelope instead. Or you could start looking for the declaration at the 2nd character, so you would skip over the first one.
This is obviously not a fool-proof solution that will work in every case. But maybe it will work in all of your cases?
Skipping lines
If you're sure it will work to always start reading from line 30 of the input file, you can use this method instead.
XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
using (var rdr = new StreamReader(pathToXmlFile))
{
// Skip until reader is positioned at start of line 30
for (var i = 0; i < 29; ++i)
{
rdr.ReadLine();
}
// Load document from current position of reader
xDoc.Load(rdr);
}

"Root element is missing" exception given when trying to parse XML file

I'm trying to set up parsing for a test XML generated with ksoap2 in Android:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<v:Envelope xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:c="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:v="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<v:Header />
<v:Body>
<v:SOAPBODY>
<v:INFO i:type="v:INFO">
<v:LAITETUNNUS i:type="d:string">EI_TUNNUSTA</v:LAITETUNNUS>
</v:INFO>
<v:TOIMINNOT i:type="v:TOIMINNOT">
<v:TOIMINTA i:type="d:string">ASETUKSET_HAKU</v:TOIMINTA>
</v:TOIMINNOT>
<v:SISALTO i:type="v:SISALTO">
<v:KUVA i:type="d:string">AGFAFDGFDGFG</v:KUVA>
<v:MITTAUS i:type="d:string">12,42,12,4,53,12</v:MITTAUS>
</v:SISALTO>
</v:SOAPBODY>
</v:Body>
</v:Envelope>
But seemingly i can't parse it in any way. The exception is always that "Root element is not found" even when it goes through XML-validators like the one at w3schools. If i'm correct the contents of the body shouldn't be an issue when the problem is with root element.
The test code for parsing i try to use in C# is:
using (StreamReader streamreader = new StreamReader(Context.Request.InputStream))
{
try
{
XDocument xmlInput = new XDocument();
streamreader.BaseStream.Position = 0;
string tmp = streamreader.ReadToEnd();
var xmlreader = XmlReader.Create(streamreader.BaseStream);
xmlInput = XDocument.Parse(tmp);
xmlInput = XDocument.Load(xmlreader);
catch (Exception e)
{ }
where the xmlInput = XDocument.Parse(tmp); does indeed parse it to a XDocument, not a navigable one, though. Then xmlInput = XDocument.Load(xmlreader); throws the exception for not having a root element. I'm completely at loss here because i managed to parse and navigate the almost same xml with XMLDocument and XDocument classes before, and i fear i made some changes i didn't notice.
Thanks in advance.
Update: Here's the string tmp as requested :
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?><v:Envelope xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:d=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:c=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/\" xmlns:v=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"><v:Header /><v:Body><v:SOAPBODY><v:INFO i:type=\"v:INFO\"><v:LAITETUNNUS i:type=\"d:string\">EI_TUNNUSTA</v:LAITETUNNUS></v:INFO><v:TOIMINNOT i:type=\"v:TOIMINNOT\"><v:TOIMINTA i:type=\"d:string\">ASETUKSET_HAKU</v:TOIMINTA></v:TOIMINNOT><v:SISALTO i:type=\"v:SISALTO\"><v:KUVA i:type=\"d:string\">AGFAFDGFDGFG</v:KUVA><v:MITTAUS i:type=\"d:string\">12,42,12,4,53,12</v:MITTAUS></v:SISALTO></v:SOAPBODY></v:Body></v:Envelope>\r\n"
Update: Even with XDocument.Load(new StreamReader(Context.Request.InputStream, Encoding.UTF8)); the parsing will fail.
I believe you've read to the end of the stream once already, you need to reset the position in the stream again. see: "Root element is missing" error but I have a root element

Using Xpath With Default Namespace in C# for Canonicalisation

I'm trying to apply the C14N transform to some generated XML. It appears I can't use LINQ to retrieve the nodes to perform the canonicalisation so I have to go 'old school' with the DOM but I think I'm falling foul of the default namespace.
Here is a sample of my code.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
// Load some test xml
string path = #"..\..\TestFiles\Test_1.xml";
if (File.Exists(path) == true)
{
xDoc.PreserveWhitespace = true;
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open))
{
xDoc.Load(fs);
}
}
//Instantiate an XmlNamespaceManager object.
System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager xmlnsManager = new System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager(xDoc.NameTable);
//Add the namespaces used in books.xml to the XmlNamespaceManager.
xmlnsManager.AddNamespace("", "http://www.myApps.co.uk/");
// Create a list of nodes to have the Canonical treatment
//Execute the XPath query using the SelectNodes method of the XmlDocument.
//Supply the XmlNamespaceManager as the nsmgr parameter.
//The matching nodes will be returned as an XmlNodeList.
XmlNodeList nodeList = xDoc.SelectNodes("/ApplicationsBatch/Applications|/ApplicationsBatch/Applications//*", xmlnsManager);
// Perform the C14N transform on the data
XmlDsigC14NTransform transform = new XmlDsigC14NTransform();
transform.LoadInput(nodeList);
MemoryStream ms = (MemoryStream)transform.GetOutput(typeof(Stream));
File.WriteAllBytes(#"..\..\TestFiles\ModifiedTest_1", ms.ToArray());
}
And my XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ApplicationsBatch xmlns="http://www.myApps.co.uk/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<MessageHeader>
<MessageID>00000003</MessageID>
<Body>11223344556</Body>
<Timestamp>2011-08-02T09:00:00</Timestamp>
<MessageCheck>?</MessageCheck>
</MessageHeader>
<Applications>
<Application>
<ApplicantDetails>
<Title>MR</Title>
<Forename>HOMER</Forename>
<Middlenames>
<Middlename></Middlename>
</Middlenames>
<PresentSurname>SIMPSON</PresentSurname>
<CurrentAddress>
<Address>
<AddressLine1>ADDRESS LINE1</AddressLine1>
<AddressLine2>ADDRESS LINE2</AddressLine2>
<AddressTown>ADDRESS Town</AddressTown>
<AddressCounty>COUNTY</AddressCounty>
<Postcode>POST CODE</Postcode>
<CountryCode>GB</CountryCode>
</Address>
<ResidentFromGyearMonth>2007-01</ResidentFromGyearMonth>
</CurrentAddress>
</ApplicantDetails>
</Application>
<Application>
<ApplicantDetails>
<Title>MR</Title>
<Forename>BART</Forename>
<Middlenames>
<Middlename></Middlename>
</Middlenames>
<PresentSurname>SIMPSON</PresentSurname>
<CurrentAddress>
<Address>
<AddressLine1>ADDRESS LINE1</AddressLine1>
<AddressLine2>ADDRESS LINE2</AddressLine2>
<AddressTown>ADDRESS Town</AddressTown>
<AddressCounty>COUNTY</AddressCounty>
<Postcode>POST CODE</Postcode>
<CountryCode>GB</CountryCode>
</Address>
<ResidentFromGyearMonth>2007-01</ResidentFromGyearMonth>
</CurrentAddress>
</ApplicantDetails>
</Application>
</Applications>
</ApplicationsBatch>
I've read a few other topics around the area and came across this Gem but it's not solved the problem.
Using the XPath Visualiser shows the required nodes should be selected but my code fails to select any.
I've found a partial answer to my problem.
When a new namespace is added to the manager it appears that the default namespace can't be an empty string.
This is what I ended up with:
//Instantiate an XmlNamespaceManager object.
System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager xmlnsManager = new System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager(xDoc.NameTable);
//Add the namespaces used to the XmlNamespaceManager.
xmlnsManager.AddNamespace("x", "http://www.myApps.co.uk/");
I then needed to modify the XPath to reflect the namespace identifier like this:
// Create a list of nodes to have the Canonical treatment
//Execute the XPath query using the SelectNodes method of the XmlDocument.
//Supply the XmlNamespaceManager as the nsmgr parameter.
//The matching nodes will be returned as an XmlNodeList.
XmlNodeList nodeList = xDoc.SelectNodes("/x:ApplicationsBatch/x:Applications|/x:ApplicationsBatch/x:Applications//*", xmlnsManager);
The nodes are now selected and ready for transformation... although that returns the correct structure of XML but all the values have been removed but that is a problem for another question.

How to read processing instruction from an XML file using .NET 3.5

How to check whether an Xml file have processing Instruction
Example
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Sample.xsl"?>
<Root>
<Child/>
</Root>
I need to read the processing instruction
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Sample.xsl"?>
from the XML file.
Please help me to do this.
How about:
XmlProcessingInstruction instruction = doc.SelectSingleNode("processing-instruction('xml-stylesheet')") as XmlProcessingInstruction;
You can use FirstChild property of XmlDocument class and XmlProcessingInstruction class:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("example.xml");
if (doc.FirstChild is XmlProcessingInstruction)
{
XmlProcessingInstruction processInfo = (XmlProcessingInstruction) doc.FirstChild;
Console.WriteLine(processInfo.Data);
Console.WriteLine(processInfo.Name);
Console.WriteLine(processInfo.Target);
Console.WriteLine(processInfo.Value);
}
Parse Value or Data properties to get appropriate values.
How about letting the compiler do more of the work for you:
XmlDocument Doc = new XmlDocument();
Doc.Load(openFileDialog1.FileName);
XmlProcessingInstruction StyleReference =
Doc.OfType<XmlProcessingInstruction>().Where(x => x.Name == "xml-stylesheet").FirstOrDefault();

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