Let’s check below how to solve undeclared prefix error on XElement.Load(). In order to use a namespace prefix (such as addthis:), the namespace must be declared, by writing xmlns:addthis=”Fixed URI”. This will get added in very first line of your XSLT template. See example below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<url>
<loc>https://codeconfig.in/</loc>
<lastmod>2010-01-20T10:56:47Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://codeconfig.in/</loc>
<lastmod>2009-10-13T10:20:03Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://codeconfig.in/</loc>
<lastmod>2009-10-13T10:19:09Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>In general, you shouldn’t parse HTML using an XML parser, since HTML is likely to be invalid XML, for this reason and a number of other reasons (undeclared entities, unescaped JS, unclosed tags) this error may occur.
Do it by code only:
If you need to do it all in code what you want is something like this:
XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings { NameTable = new NameTable() };
XmlNamespaceManager xmlns = new XmlNamespaceManager(settings.NameTable);
xmlns.AddNamespace("addthis", ""); // this line will add namespace
XmlParserContext context = new XmlParserContext(null, xmlns, "", XmlSpace.Default);
XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(text), settings, context);
XDocument xmlDoc = XDocument.Load(reader);And for any additional prefixes add below line more times as required:
xmlns.AddNamespace("prefix", "");