Extract xml tags from files of different structure

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

@sereganator
the direct namespace existence is a straight formard approach

• check default namespace as mentioned by @Yoichi
• check root element namespace definitions can be done with the attribute property IsNamespaceDeclaration

otherwise you can react on retrieval result counts …Descendendants(…).toList.Count and can also avoid empty result access issues.

Have a look here, maybe you can modify for your scenario

Reading all the tags of an XML and take them to excel

@Fabian_DDD I do feel that a XPath Approach is better for the retrieval Setting up a NamespaceManager with a Config Datatable: [grafik] for the default namespace with empty prefix “def” is assigne as prefix the retrieval is configured as another datatable (could also be externalize into an excel) [grafik] I did also for a deeper nested element for demo purpose After all preperation it is iterating over the retrieval config and retrieves the specfied values. et voila: [grafik] So this …

In case of you need more help, then just provide us the more detailed requirements of your case. Thanks