IsNamespaceDeclaration Property
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XAttribute.IsNamespaceDeclaration Property

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Determines if this attribute is a namespace declaration.

Namespace:  System.Xml.Linq
Assembly:  System.Xml.Linq (in System.Xml.Linq.dll)

public bool IsNamespaceDeclaration { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if this attribute is a namespace declaration; otherwise false.

Technically, in XML, namespace declarations are not attributes proper. However, this distinction is not normally made by most XML programmers. Instead, because namespace declarations have exactly the same syntax as attributes, most XML programmers think of namespaces as attributes. To simplify the LINQ to XML programming interface, namespaces are represented in the XML tree as attributes. You can use this property to determine if a particular LINQ to XML attribute is really a namespace declaration.

The following example creates an attribute that is a namespace declaration and an attribute that is not. It then uses this property to display whether each attribute is a namespace declaration or not.


StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
XNamespace aw = "http://www.adventure-works.com";
XElement root = new XElement(aw + "Root",
    new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xmlns + "aw", "http://www.adventure-works.com"),
    new XAttribute(aw + "Att", "content")
);

foreach (XAttribute att in root.Attributes())
{
    if (att.IsNamespaceDeclaration)
        output.Append(att.Name + " is a namespace declaration" + Environment.NewLine);
    else
        output.Append(att.Name + " is not a namespace declaration" + Environment.NewLine);
}

OutputTextBlock.Text = output.ToString();


Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

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