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Using XElement to query a node in a namespace

I am trying to pull a node from a csproj file that looks like this but cannot make it work - apparently due to a namespace declaration.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" DefaultTargets="Build">
      <PropertyGroup>
          <RegisterForComInterop>true</RegisterForComInterop>

This fails:

XDocument cpo = XDocument.Load(file);
XmlNamespaceManager nsm = new XmlNamespaceManager(new NameTable());
nsm.AddNamespace("x", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/200");
IEnumerable<XElement> list3 = cpo.XPathSelectElements("//x:RegisterForComInterop[.='true']", nsm);

Any ideas please

Thank.

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Are you sure you want to use XPath for this? It is very simple to use namespaces in LINQ to XML:

XDocument cpo = XDocument.Load(file);
XNamespace x = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003";
var elements = cpo.Descendants(x + "RegisterForComInterop")
                  .Where(x => (string) x == "true");

or if you are absolutely sure that each RegisterForComInterop will have a corresponding logical value, you can use the explicit conversion XElementtobool :

XDocument cpo = XDocument.Load(file);
XNamespace x = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003";
var elements = cpo.Descendants(x + "RegisterForComInterop")
                  .Where(x => (bool) x);

, XPath, .

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