Reading an XML Document Using Linq

Question

I would like to read an XML document using the following code:

XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(fileName); 

This does not work, and the following exception is thrown (freely translated by me):

System.Xml.XmlException: "xlink" is not an advertised prefix.

Here is the XML line to which the exception relates:

 <use xlink:href="#lend13" transform="scale(-8.5,-8.5) "/> 

How do I change the download code so that the XML document is read successfully? Should I create namespaces in advance? How?

Answer 1

I think it will be useful, it worked for me ...

http://aspnetgotyou.blogspot.com/2010/06/xdocument-or-xelement-with-xmlnamespace.html

Answer 2

if you can edit Xml, you can fix it by specifying a namespace for it

 <use xlink:href="#lend13" transform="scale(-8.5,-8.5) xmlns:xlink="http://myurl.com/" /> 

otherwise, you can predefine the namespace when using XmlDocument

 XmlDocument.DocumentElement.SetAttribute("xmlns:xlink", "http://myurl.com/"); 

and in linq for XML you can define an attribute using XNamesace

 XNamespace ns = "http://myurl.com/";