WSDL ElementForm Unqualified

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From: Simon (Simon_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:55:03 -0800

Hi -

I have a webservice with WSDL specifying 'elementFormDefault' set to
'unqualified'. I find when I try to process the incoming XML the raw XML
either looks like this:

  <s0:rootelement xmlns:s0="myns">
    <ChildElement></ChildElement>
  </s0:rootelement >

or like this:

<rootelement xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<ChildElement></ChildElement>
</rootelement >

So far the only way I can deal with it which works consistently is like this:

            XmlNode node = nodeInput.SelectSingleNode("/element");
            if (node == null) {
                XmlNamespaceManager mgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(node
.OwnerDocument.NameTable);
                mgr.AddNamespace("ns", "myns");
                node = nodeInput.SelectSingleNode("/ns:element", mgr);
            }

which seems wrong. Is there a way of reading the nodes from an XPath which
doesn't require the 'if'?

Thanks,

Simon