Can you get the prefix, not the namespace, from an XElement?

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AK

Hiya,

I've got some xml elements that look like this:
<dc:title xml:lang="fr">myTitle</dc:title>

I would like to be able to get the name with the prefix, i.e.
'dc:title', but I can only manage to get either 'title' only or the
namespace (xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"). Code is
below.

XElement xml = XElement.Load(metadataPath);

foreach (XElement child in xml.Elements())
{
string childElement = child.Name.LocalName; // returns 'title'
string namespace= child.Name.NamespaceName; // returns 'http://
purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'
}

Is it possible to get out what I want from this?

Many thanks,

AK
 
AK said:
I've got some xml elements that look like this:
<dc:title xml:lang="fr">myTitle</dc:title>

I would like to be able to get the name with the prefix, i.e.
'dc:title', but I can only manage to get either 'title' only or the
namespace (xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/").
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Here is how you can find the prefix:

XElement el = XElement.Parse(@"<dc:title
xmlns:dc=""http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/""
xml:lang=""fr"">myTitle</dc:title>");
Console.WriteLine(el.GetPrefixOfNamespace(el.Name.Namespace));


You already know how to find the local name.
 
Here is how you can find the prefix:
             XElement el = XElement.Parse(@"<dc:title
xmlns:dc=""http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/""
xml:lang=""fr"">myTitle</dc:title>");
             Console.WriteLine(el.GetPrefixOfNamespace(el.Name.Namespace));
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Brilliant, works perfectly! Thank you for answering.

Cheers,

AK
 
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