Open XML - where did my Prefix Go?

Question

Hi everyone. Please help with this if you can. Its very urgent and I can't seem to get my head around the problem. Note that I'm not a regular OpenXML developer. While debugging, the newly created element has its Prefix as w: , but the Xmldoc at the end loses it.

The resultant InnerXML for the Element below is : <altChunk id="FF_HTML" xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" />

Expected Result is <w:altChunk r:id="FF_HTML"/>

Any help please?

       private static XmlDocument prepareHTMLChunks(PackagePart partDocumentXML)
    {
        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        Stream xmlStream = partDocumentXML.GetStream();
        doc.Load(xmlStream);

        NameTable nt = new NameTable();
        nsManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(nt);            
        nsManager.AddNamespace("w", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main");

        XmlNodeList nodeList = doc.SelectNodes("//w:bookmarkStart", nsManager);
        foreach (XmlNode node in nodeList)
        {
            foreach (XmlAttribute attr in node.Attributes)
            {
                if (attr.Value.EndsWith("HTML"))
                {
                    //XmlElement el = doc.CreateElement("w","w:altChunk",string.Empty);
                    XmlElement el = doc.CreateElement("altChunk",nsManager.LookupNamespace("w"));


                    XmlAttribute altChunkAttr = doc.CreateAttribute("r","id",string.Empty);
                    altChunkAttr.Prefix = "r";
                    altChunkAttr.Value = attr.Value;
                    el.SetAttributeNode(altChunkAttr); 

                    XmlNode nodeToReplace = node.ParentNode;                        

                    XmlNode bodyNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("//w:body", nsManager);
                    bodyNode.ReplaceChild(el, nodeToReplace);                          
                }                    
            }
        }            
        return doc;
    }

Answer 1

The prefix is only an alias for the namespace. The prefix itself does not matter. You could use "prefix" as the prefix if you wanted, and it would mean exactly the same thing.

Similarly, the exact same result can come from the xmlns="..." that you show in your question. It means the exact same thing as with the "w:" prefix, assuming that "w" was aliased to the same namespace.

Answer 2

Ok, I fixed it :

        private static XmlDocument prepareHTMLChunks(PackagePart partDocumentXML)
    {

        XmlDocument _document = new XmlDocument();
        Stream xmlStream = partDocumentXML.GetStream();
        _document.Load(xmlStream);

        XmlNamespaceManager _ns = new XmlNamespaceManager(_document.NameTable);
        _ns.AddNamespace("w", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main");

        XmlNode _body = _document.SelectSingleNode("//w:body", _ns);

        foreach (XmlNode _node in _document.SelectNodes("//w:bookmarkStart", _ns))
        {
            foreach (XmlAttribute _attribute in _node.Attributes)
            {
                if (_attribute.Value.EndsWith("HTML"))
                {
                    XmlElement _element = _document.CreateElement("w", "altChunk", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main");
                    XmlAttribute _newAttr = _document.CreateAttribute("r", "id", "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships");                        
                    _newAttr.Value = _attribute.Value;
                    _element.Attributes.Append(_newAttr);
                    _body.AppendChild(_element);                        
                }           
            }
        }            
        return _document;       
    }